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A History of Yale Athletics 



1840-1888 

GIVING EVERY CONTEST WITH 

HARVARD, PRINCETON, PENNSYLVANIA, 
COLUMBIA, WESLEYAN, 

AND OTHERS IN 

Rowing, Foot Ball, Base Ball, 
Track Athletics, Tennis, 

I C' MAY 

Bfy 

RICHARD M. HURD, Yale, '88. 
With Illustrations and complete Tables of Statistics. 



NEW HAVEN, CONN.: 
R. M. Hurd, 241 Lawrance Hall, 
Yale University. 



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COPYRIGHT, lS88 
BY R. M. HURD, 
NEW HAVEN, CONN. 



rUTTLE, MOREHOUSE & TAYLOR, PRINTERS 



Rowing — 18 43-1888. 



PERIOD PREVIOUS TO INTERCOLLEGIATE RACES 



I 843-1852 

To Yale College belongs the honor of having the oldest 
rowing club in America. On the 24th of May, 1843, a 
four-oared Whitehall boat arrived in New Haven under 
the charge of William J. Weeks, '44. In the ownership 
of this, seven men from the class of '44 were associated, 
the expense to each for the year's rowing being $7.19. 
Stimulated by their example, the students purchased 
three other boats, a Whitehall boat, a log canoe and a 
lapstreak gig for eight oars. In these the oarsmen in- 
dulged in friendly "scrub races," and took many long 
pulls, the longest being across the Sound. The first Yale 
boat race in which stipulated agreements were made 
beforehand, occurred in the summer of 1844, when the 
crew of the dug-out canoe challenged the crew of the 
lapstreak gig to a race to the Lighthouse, some four miles 
from the starting-point. One of the conditions of the 
race was that the start should be made when both crews 
were upon the pier; so that the skill and practice of the 
crew of the dug-out in getting her from her moorings 
and on board should counterbalance the natural advan- 
tage of the light boat. Another stipulation was that 
neither of the crews should do anything to their boats in 
the meantime, in the way of cleansing or preparing the 
bottom in any way for the race. On the day appointed, 
the crews leaped into their boats and struck out into the 
stream. All went well with both crews while they were 



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in the swift current under the bridge, but when the still 
water was reached the gig seemed to hang strangely 
between each stroke. The crew redoubled their efforts, 
but finding this of no avail, and becoming aware that some 
trick had been played upon them, put for the shore. Here 
it was discovered that a stout ring had been screwed into 
the keelson of the gig and a good-sized boulder attached. 
It was the universal belief that neither crew had broken 
any of the articles of agreement, in doing anything to the 
bottoms of their own boat. 

One year after the advent of the Pioneer, the first Yale 
boat, a thirty-foot, six-oared craft, called the Excelsior, 
was launched, which was the first race boat built for 
Yale. This, being manned by a crew of strong and good 
oarsmen, gave a great impetus to racing and good boat 
building at Yale. In 1845, the Augusta was bought for 
$170, which had cost to build some years before, $300. 
In 1847 a ls° the eight-oared, thirty-eight foot Shawmut 
was purchased, in which the first race against Harvard 
was rowed, in 185 1 three boats were bought, in 1852 
two boats, and in 1853 two more, making in all fifteen 
boats owned by class clubs of Yale undergraduates dur- 
ing the first ten years of the existence of rowing as a 
recognized pastime at Yale. Of these six were eight- 
oared, six four-oared, and three six-oared, and all but four 
were bought second-hand. 



INTERCOLLEGIATE PERIOD 
1852 

In this year Yale sent a challenge to Harvard, a short 
time before the summer vacation, and on August 3d, 
Harvard defeated Yale at Centre Harbor, Lake Winne* 
pisaukee. The race was rowed in eight-oared barges on 
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morning of the same day an informal or practice race was 
rowed over the same course, with the same result. 

Some idea of the amount of preparation for this race 
may be had from the remark of one of the Harvard crew, 
that " they had only rowed a few times for fear of blister- 
ing their hands." The only idea of training was the 
avoiding of pastry and sweets on the day of the race. 
The fittings of the boats used were very much like those 
of a man-of-war's gig now-a-days, each seat having a 
baize-covered cushion, the thole-pins being flat and fitted 
into the gunwale, and there being gratings at each end of 
the boat. 

The effect of this race was to lead the Yale boat clubs 
to the idea of racing among themselves, and with this end 
in view, the six active boat clubs in June, 1853, adopted a 
general constitution, by which they were known collec- 
tively as the " Yale Navy." The chief officer of the 
" Navy " was the Commodore, whose duty it was to 
make arrangements for an annual regatta. This office 
was first conferred upon Richard Waite, brother of the 
late Chief Justice of the United States, in recognition of 
his being the originator of the " Yale Navy." The intro- 
duction of systematized racing tended to a uniformity in 
the style of boat used, and the six-oared soon became the 
prevailing type. 



1855 

A challenge was again sent by Yale to Harvard in this 
year, and a race was rowed on the Connecticut River at 
Springfield, July 21. The day was showery with a light 
breeze, but with smooth water. The Yale crew rowed a 
short, jerky stroke, more than sixty to the minute, and 
although they had the better boats were no match for the 
powerful physique and real skill of the Harvard men. 
This race was watched by thousands and the excitement 
was very great. 



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In May of this year a proposal was made in the Harvard 
Magazine to establish an annual Intercollegiate Regatta, 
and for this purpose delegates from Harvard, Brown, 
Trinity and Yale met at New Haven. This convention 
decided upon holding an annual regatta, the place for 
that year to be Springfield, and in future to be named 
one year in advance. The other stipulations were that 
the course should be three miles, either straight-away or 
with a turn, according to weather ; that each college 
should enter as many boats as it pleased, with or without 
coxswains, and of any description it pleased, and that an 
allowance of 11 seconds per extra oar should be made in 
favor of the smaller boats. 

The sad accident of the drowning of Mr. George E. 
Dunham, '59, of the Yale crew, six days before the time 
appointed for the race, prevented the contest of this year. 
The work of the Harvard crew this year consisted in 
walking, running, gymnasium work, tossing 12 lb. cannon 
ball, etc. Their diet was severe, no vegetables but rice 
being allowed, no fish, only beef, mutton, stale bread, oat- 
meal gruel, and small quantities of milk and water. The 
most trying part of the training was the endurance ol 
thirst. 



1859 

A meeting of delegates from the four colleges met at 
Providence, February 23d, at which it was voted that the 
next regatta should be held July 22 at Springfield or 
Worcester, but later the place selected for the race was 
changed to Lake Quinsigamond, and the date changed to 
July 26. On this day four boats competed, two from 
Harvard and one each from Brown and Yale. An en- 
croachment by the Avon, Harvard's second boat, com- 
pelled Yale to steer a wide course and Harvard's first 
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next day, July 27th, Yale and Harvard were alone entered 
to compete for the Worcester Citizen's Prize. The race 
was an exciting one, the boats being nearly neck-and- 
neck throughout. At the mile the two boats fouled for a 
moment but got clear. Yale began to turn first, but turn- 
ing slowly, was lapped by Harvard as they started for 
the homestretch. Yale was rowing forty-eight and fifty 
to the minute, and for a moment falling to forty-six, Har- 
vard gained a clear length. As they neared the finish the 
Yale stroke calling for a spurt, sent the stroke up to 
forty-eight, fifty — sixty, and crossed the line two seconds 
ahead of Harvard. As Harvard rowed without a cox- 
swain she probably found the wind blowing across the 
course a disadvantage although it could hardly have im- 
peded her much, since she made the best time she had 
ever made. 

The Harvard crew rowed in a new boat which was too 
light for them. The Yale crew rowed in a shell which 
they only received three days before the race and in 
which they used spoon oars ten and a half feet long in 
place of the twelve and a half and thirteen feet straight 
oars with which they had practiced in their lapstreaks. 
They were thus obliged to put their stroke up to fifty or 
sixty, in place of the thirty-eight they had been rowing. 
The chief points of their stroke were, a good strong catch, 
full thigh and loin movement before the oars were past 
the perpendicular, a clean feather and a prompt, easy 
recover. Their course of training was most severe. 
Their diet consisted of meat, oatmeal, and coarse bread, 
with occasional fruit. They ran four miles before break- 
fast, the last half mile at speed. At noon they pulled 
weights and wrestled for an hour, and in the evening they 
pulled the full course round the red buoy. Their average 
weight was 148 pounds which represents very " fine " 
condition. 

The result of this first victory over Harvard, was the 
establishment of a system of permanent boat clubs on the 
plan of the English college clubs, for the purpose of bet- 
ter organization. The clubs organized were three in num- 



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ber, the "Glyuna," the "Varuna," and the " Nixie," and 
the number of the members of each was unlimited. 

The victory of this year likewise caused all the three 
lower classes in Yale to challenge the three correspond- 
ing classes in Harvard, of whom the Sophomores and 
Freshmen accepted. 

The first Yale boat house was erected in this year, and 
consisted of a rough shed in which the boats could be 
stored. The boats had to be carried down and launched 
from the natural bank, which necessitated, at low water, 
several yards of walking through mud. 



i860 

The third Intercollegiate Regatta came off at Worces- 
ter, July 24th, with Harvard, Brown, and Yale competing 
in six-oared shells. The University race was rowed in 
good weather and won by Harvard, who also won both 
the Sophomore and Freshman races against the Yale 
Sophomores and Freshmen. All the Yale boats carried 
coxswains, while the Harvards did not. The Yale Uni- 
versity crew of this year was a strong one, but fell into the 
mistake of cultivating gymnasium muscle too much, and 
lacked practice together under favorable conditions. 
They had practiced so much in their shell in rough water 
that their stroke had become chopped, and the reach and 
play of the back and loins greatly lessened. Another 
mistake they made was that of adhering to a short stroke. 

Owing largely to the breaking out of the Civil War, 
and partly, also, to obstacles put in the way of intercol- 
legiate contests by the Faculties of Harvard and Yale, 
no race was rowed between the two until 1864, although 
Yale made an attempt to institute a race in 1863. 

Up to March, 1862, forty boats had been owned by the 
Yale Navy, of which eighteen remained, — ten shells, five 
common race boats and three barges. In the Fall of 
1862, the undergraduates raised $1,000 for the erection ot 
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people and receiving only $150 from graduates, the 
scheme would have failed entirely had not Professors 
Silliman, '37, and Gilman, '52, and Treasurer Kingsley, 
'34, advanced $2,000 which they borrowed on a mortgage 
of the prospective property. During the summer of 1863, 
a building was constructed ninety by fifty-five feet, which 
rested on piles driven in the flats just north of the steam- 
boat storehouse. The entire cost of this was $3,400. 

The manner in which boats were launched appears 
decidedly primitive. The piles on which the house stood 
were arranged in parallel rows, and between these the 
boats were lowered by tackle through doors in the floor- 
ing of the house. The crew descended by a ladder and 
walked along the keelson to their places, their oars being 
then handed to them. After a series of misadventures, a 
float was built in front of the house and the holes in the 
floor nailed up. The Navy now owning property needed 
some legal incorporation, so that in 1863 a law was passed 
by the Connecticut Legislature, by which the Yale Navy 
was authorized to exist, to hold and convey property and 
transact its affairs as it deemed convenient. 



1864 

Early in this year a meeting of delegates from Harvard 
and Yale was held at Springfield, at which it was agreed 
that no other colleges should be invited to contest besides 
the two represented. The race was rowed July 29th and 
resulted in a victory for Yale. The Harvard Sophomores, 
however, defeated the Yale Sophomores quite easily. 
Yale's University victory was almost entirely due to the 
untiring and enthusiastic efforts of Mr. Wilbur R. Bacon, 
'65, who was considered at that time to be the best oar 
that ever sat in a Yale boat. 

Despite the discouraging outlook at the beginning of 
the year the best material at Yale was picked out and a 
green crew was kept at work and inspired by the energy 
of Bacon. The training they went through was tremen- 



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dous. It lasted in its severity about two months before 
the race. They rose at six, walked and ran before break- 
fast, on an absolutely empty stomach between three and 
five miles, — running more than one-half of the distance 
and part of that at full speed, — and often carried small 
weights in their hands. They rowed four miles at full 
speed both in the morning and in the afternoon. Their 
bill of fare consisted of beef and mutton, with occasional 
chicken, toasted bread, boiled rice and weak tea. No 
wine or beer and but few vegetables. This crew offered 
an excellent example of what good discipline and hard 
work can do, even though united with bad style, for that 
their form was poor, is undeniable. 

1865 

On the 28th of July, the annual regatta w T as rowed on 
Lake Quinsigamond, between Harvard and Yale only. 
Wilbur Bacon's crew had improved both in style and 
strength, and had an excellent boat. The Harvard boat 
was an experiment, being broad and flat with a slight 
keel, and was a decided failure. 

The race was easily won by Yale in 17 min. 42^ sec, 
the fastest time ever made in America for a three-mile 
race with a turn. In the Worcester Citizen's Regatta 
Yale again defeated Harvard. 

1866 

The defeats of the two previous years caused the Har- 
vard men to set to work in earnest this year. Beginning 
early in the Fall, they ran every other day five or six 
miles at half speed. Their system of diet became more 
liberal, the motto now being Keep all the flesh you can and 
do the prescribed work, instead of as formerly, train off all 
the flesh you can. This diet was kept up to the day of the 
race, the result being a well-trained crew in much fuller 
flesh than usual, but with no over-trained men in the boat. 
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walking and running practiced until in the Spring they 
could row on the river. 

Both University crews were heavier this year than last, 
the Harvard crew averaging nearly 154 lbs., and Yale 
being heavier still. Harvard quickened the stroke she 
had used, up to 42-43 strokes, while Yale changed their 
short spasmodic stroke to a much longer and slower one, 
which they rowed, however, principally with their arms. 

Harvard won the race easily by about half a minute, 
and the Harvard Scientifics likewise defeated the Yale 
Scientifics. 

1867 

On July 19th, at Lake Quinsigamond, the Seventh 
Intercollegiate Regatta was rowed between Harvard and 
Yale, and resulted in an easy victory for Harvard by over 
one minute. The Harvard crew trained on the same 
good principles they adopted the year before, and came 
to the line with a crew averaging 158^ lbs. In the Fresh- 
man race, the Yale crew defeated the Harvard. Both 
crews claimed a foul but both claims were disallowed. 



1868 

Great things were expected of the Harvard crew of 
this year, as they had made a remarkably good showing 
against the famous Ward brothers. These expectations 
were realized on the 24th of July, when Harvard defeated 
Yale by nearly a minute. Harvard rowed forty-five 
strokes to the minute and used rather shorter oars than 
are now used. Their time was 17 min. 48^ sec, second 
only to that made by the Yale crew of 1865. 

In this year rowing was reorganized at Yale, the 
" English " scheme of boat clubs being abandoned and a 
Constitution of the Yale Navy being adopted, by which 
class clubs were formed, four from the Academic and one 
from the Sheffield Scientific School. 



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1869 

Ever since Harvard's severe defeat of Yale in 1867, 
negotiations had been going on at intervals between 
Harvard and Oxford, and on the 27th of August a four- 
oared race was rowed between them from Putney to 
Mortlake, resulting in a victory for Oxford by six seconds. 
Considering the fact that two of the Harvard men were 
badly overtrained, and that Harvard was obliged to yield 
to every one of Oxford's demands in regard to carrying 
coxswains, the course, etc., she made a remarkably good 
showing. 

The sending of this four-oar to England very nearly 
prevented a race with Yale this year; however, a six-oar 
was organized, which on the 23d of July defeated the 
Yale crew by nine seconds in a hard-fought race. Two 
of the Harvard crew immediately sailed for England and 
rowed against Oxford. 

This race did not so much bring disgrace to Yale, for 
she rowed a very fast race, — as it did bring great credit to 
Harvard for turning out two such excellent crews. 

1870 

The races came off this year on the 22d of July, the 
Freshman race coming first, between Harvard, Brown, 
Amherst, and Yale. It was a remarkable race in being 
the first in which the crew of any other college won a 
victory over Harvard and Yale. The Yale Freshmen 
did not wish to have Brown and Amherst in the race, but 
were obliged to yield this point to Harvard. The Har- 
vard and Yale boats collided, but, getting clear, were 
beaten by Brown. 

In the University race the course was as usual, three 
miles with a turn, and both boats were obliged to turn 
about the same stake in spite of Yale's urgent request for 
separate turning stakes. The crews started off", Harvard 
rowing 48 and Yale 44 to the minute, and kept close to 
each other till the turn, where Yale was slightly in the 



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lead but was obliged to stop and allow Harvard to turn, 
she having drawn the inside course. As Harvard was 
turning, the tips of her oars were under the stake-float, 
and the buoy was upset and struck her boat, while Yale 
in making the turn directly behind could not prevent 
bumping Harvard owing to the sudden stop she made. 
Harvard's steering-gear was rendered useless and she 
rowed in i min. 45 sec. behind the Yale crew. In the 
meeting at which the referee decided the winner of the 
race, Yale admitted fouling Harvard, but made a counter- 
charge of foul against Harvard for forcing Yale out of 
her course, which claim not being admitted, the race was 
given to Harvard. 

In June of this year a new Constitution was adopted, 
by which the " Yale Navy" was changed to the "Yale 
University Boat Club," and the title of its chief officer 
changed from " Commodore " to " President," it being 
provided, also, that he should not be a member of the 
crew. 

1871 

Ever since the defeat of 1866, Yale had been hostile to 
the Worcester course, and so intense was the feeling after 
the race of '70, that at a boating meeting the resolution 
was passed that " No Yale crew should be allowed to 
challenge any Harvard crew, except for a straight-away 
race." In accordance with this a challenge was sent to 
Harvard, the only reply to which was a request four 
months later that Yale should send delegates to the con- 
vention to be held at Springfield to establish a union 
regatta of American colleges. 

Yale replied by requesting that the existing challenge 
should be disposed of outside of any convention, except 
one of the two colleges concerned. Harvard nevertheless 
organized the " Rowing Association of American Col- 
leges," with the support of Brown, Amherst, and Bow- 
doin. Yale voted to have nothing to do with this regatta, 
and the crew disbanded, countermanding their order for 



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a new boat. Harvard foreseeing the insignificance of the 
regatta should Yale fail to take part, wrote a letter urging 
Yale to enter the regatta and offering to row her a separate 
race if she refused to do so. Harvard insisted, however, 
on the right of the challenged party to name time and 
place, which meant but a repetition of the old turn-about 
course at Worcester. Yale voted, therefore that Harvard 
should be notified that Yale considered this a non-accept- 
ance of her challenge, and that as the crew was disbanded 
and the season well advanced, no future acceptance of the 
challenge would be recognized. The Harvard men here- 
upon reversed their policy and offered to row Yale a race 
of any kind (straight-away or turning) at any time and 
place and for any distance. This was rejected by Yale by 
a vote of 120 to 90, chiefly because the crew were out of 
training. 

In the race between Harvard, Brown, and Massachu- 
setts Agricultural College, the latter won easily, defeating 
Harvard by 37 seconds. 

1872 

This victory of a small college of a hundred and fifty 
men over Harvard rendered all the other small colleges 
eager to try their luck, and Harvard was thus obliged to 
continue the " Rowing Ass. of Amer. Coll." Owing to 
the latest offer of the '71 Harvard crew to row Yale a 
separate race, Yale might have easily obtained this from 
Harvard, but the management at Yale changing hands, 
the concession wrested from Harvard was given up, and 
delegates entered Yale as a member of the Association. 

The defeat of Harvard, which so stimulated the smaller 
colleges, appears to have taken away a large amount of in- 
terest in boating at Harvard itself, so that great difficulty 
was experienced in getting a crew together. An entirely 
new set of men were chosen, the old oars refusing to row. 
Despite the fact that the diet of this crew was more lib- 
eral than usual, with fruit and vegetables in moderation 
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overtrained. The Yale crew was memorable as being 
the worst that ever assumed to represent Yale, and also 
for containing the freshman, who, as captain and stroke 
for the four succeeding years, ultimately brought more 
improvement and prestige to Yale oarsmanship than any 
other individual ever connected with it. It is hardly 
necessary to say that this was Mr. Robert J. Cook, '76. 

Six crews were entered for the University race, and 
finished, in the following order: Amherst, Harvard, Mas- 
sachusetts Agricultural, Bowdoin, Williams and Yale. 
Yale was not only the last of the six boats but was 
defeated by a minute and three-quarters. In the fresh- 
man race, Yale was defeated by Wesleyan, the other com- 
peting crews being Amherst and Brown. It is worthy 
of notice that the Harvard crew this year sat on the sides 
of their boat, although from 1866 to 1871 and from 1875 
on, their seats were in the middle of the boat. 



1873 

This second defeat of Harvard by a small college, and 
the disgraceful defeat of Yale by five crews, increased the 
confidence and enthusiasm of the smaller colleges to such 
an extent that eleven colleges took part in the race of 
this year, Wesleyan, Columbia, Cornell, Amherst, Dart- 
mouth, Massachusetts Agricultural, Bowdoin, Trinity, 
Williams, Harvard and Yale. 

The race of '73 is notable both for the intense interest 
then shown in rowing, and for the misunderstanding by 
which the champion flags were given to Harvard at the 
end of the race instead of to Yale. 

Yale's crew was a great improvement on any Yale crew 
seen for many years, for, although not remarkable physi- 
cally, it had been infused by the energy and spirit of its 
captain, and had been taught the principles of good row- 
ing which he had learned in a trip to England. Har- 
vard's crew was also a very good one, well trained and 
rowing in excellent form. 
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At the start Harvard and Yale took the lead, with Wil- 
liams and Trinity in the rear, and the seven other crews at 
intermediate positions. For an instant the oars of Har- 
vard and Yale were interlocked, but the boats becoming 
free, Harvard steered to the east bank and Yale to the 
west. For two miles, Harvard kept slightly ahead of 
Yale, with the other crews dropping more and more to 
the rear, but during the third mile Yale drew up and 
passed her. Wesleyan followed close upon Yale and 
crossed the line second, with Harvard third, on the other 
side of the river. 

The presentation of the flags to the Harvard crew with- 
out the permission of the referee, by a Harvard graduate, 
to whose care they had been entrusted, was most unfor- 
tunate, both in leading the Yale crew to believe that 
Harvard had snatched the flags to throw a cloud over 
the victory they could not prevent, and in intensifying 
the bitterness of defeat to the Harvard crew, by the 
necessity of surrendering the emblems of triumph after 
such a brief enjoyment of them. The fact of there being 
a diagonal finish line furnished material for much contro- 
versy. 

In 1873, a constitution of the Yale University Boat 
Club was for the first time properly drafted and printed, 
and the practice of twenty years disregarded in the elec- 
tion to the office of President of a graduate student, 
Charles H. Ferry, '72, of Chicago. Elected to office just 
as the announcement was made that the owners of the 
site of the boat-house required the immediate removal of 
that building, he devoted himself with untiring energy 
to the task of building a better one. Inspiring the enthu- 
siasm of alumni and undergraduates alike by his story of 
the three Yale victories, in the University, freshman and 
single-scull races over fifteen colleges at Springfield, he 
succeeded in raising all of the $16,500 needed except be- 
tween $1,000 and $2,000, which was paid off a couple of 
years later. The building plans were those of Cum- 
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awarded to Kenney and Phelps. The expenses were as 
follows : 

Lot, 75x100 feet, $4,500 

Piling, floats and bridges, 1,500 

Dredging, . . 500 

Interior fittings of furniture, 1,300 

Building contract, . 8,500 

Total outlay, $16,500 



The largest contributors were Messrs. Henry Farnam, 
Robert Bonner, G. P. Wetmore, F. W. Stevens, George 
A. Adee, G. St. J. Sheffield, A. M. Wheeler, Charles H. 
Ferry, and Frederick Wood. 

The boat house was opened June 9, 1875, speeches 
being made by President Porter, '31, Professor Brewer, 
'52, Rev. Joseph H. Twichell, '59, and William C. Gulli- 
ver, '70. The University and Freshman crews had a race 
of about a mile, beginning and ending at the boat house, 
and in the evening a ball was held. To give a short 
description of the boat house, the first floor is devoted to 
the storage of boats, being twelve feet high, with a water 
front of eighty-three feet, having five doors and bridges 
leading down to the float. The second story, surrounded 
on three sides by a broad piazza, consists of a reception 
room, dressing-rooms for the University and class crews, 
president's office, janitor's room, baths, closets, etc. The 
boat house bears a general resemblance to that of the 
London Rowing Club, but is in several respects superior 
to it. 

1874 

The convention of this year was held in Hartford, Jan- 
uary 21, with delegates from twelve colleges present. 
Harvard brought forward three propositions which, being 
opposed by Yale and eight other colleges were lost. 
They were: 1, That no more colleges be allowed to 
enter the association. 2, That professional school stu- 
dents be eligible for the crews ; and 3, that the next race 
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Owing to a curious cry raised in the New England 
newspapers, the offer of the Saratoga hotel-keepers to 
pledge any necessary amount of money to meet the 
expenses of management, was formally rejected and all 
chances of a well-conducted regatta lost. 

The 15th of July was the day appointed for the races, 
but the water was so rough that the freshman race was 
not rowed until just before sunset, and the single-scull 
race almost in the dark. In the freshman race Princeton 
won, defeating Yale and Brown, Harvard not entering a 
crew. In the single-scull race A. Wilcox of Yale, '74, 
defeated A. L. Devins of Harvard, '74, by ten lengths, 
and E. L. Phillips, of Cornell, '75, by fifteen or twenty 
lengths. 

The University race, after three days postponement on 
account of rough weather, was rowed in the morning of 
the 18th July with nine crews contesting, Columbia, 
Wesleyan, Williams, Cornell, Dartmouth, Trinity, Prince- 
ton, Harvard and Yale. 

Harvard and Yale starting off at 34 and 33 strokes to 
the minute respectively, rowed " a waiting race," while 
Columbia started with a spurt, rowing 38. At the mile 
Columbia led by half a length with Harvard second, Yale 
third, Wesleyan fourth, and the rest well in the rear. 
Here Yale steered wildly, crossing Harvard's stern to 
the west and soon dropping a little behind and crossing 
her stern to the east. In the next half mile Harvard and 
Yale gained on Columbia, while Wesleyan fell behind 
slightly. Here Yale began her spurt, and quickly got 
even with Columbia and quarter of a length ahead of 
Harvard. As Harvard was beginning her spurt a foul 
occurred between Yale and her, during which Columbia 
got a winning lead, and Wesleyan, which had been three 
lengths behind, passed both crews and came in second. 
By the foul Yale's rudder was broken and her bow's oar 
broken, so she gave up rowing. The referee allowed 
the results of the race to stand in spite of the rule of the 
association, that " in case of a foul the race shall be rowed 
over again, unless the umpire shall decide the winning 



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boat had sufficient lead at the moment of the foul, to war- 
rant its having the race assigned to it." 

Immediately after the race the Yale crew challenged 
the Harvard crew to a separate race, but were informed 
that, owing to their conduct during and directly after the 
race, no challenge would be entertained from them. 

The conduct alluded to was the bandying of epithets 
between the two crews and the mutual accusations that 
the foul had been purposely brought about. More hatred 
was brought about by this mishap than by the blunder 
about the flags in the previous year, and so the mutual 
enmity and distrust held these two rival colleges for 
another year in the meshes of the general regatta associ- 
ation. 

1875 

The annual convention held in Hartford, January 13, 
was attended by the delegates of the colleges which had 
been represented at Saratoga the previous summer. Am- 
herst, Bowdoin, and Massachusetts Agricultural had for- 
feited their membership by not sending a crew. Am- 
herst, however, was readmitted, and of the four colleges 
which applied for admission, Union and Hamilton were 
admitted, and Rutgers and the college of the city of New 
York were rejected. Yale's propositions as to the fencing 
off of the course by buoys, and the amendment of the 
racing rules were carried. 

For the freshman race Cornell defeated Harvard, 
Brown and Princeton, Yale entering no crew. In the 
single-scull race Julian Kennedy, '75 S. Yale, defeated 
W. F. Weld, Harvard, by half a minute. In the Uni- 
versity race thirteen boats took part, Cornell, Columbia, 
Dartmouth, Wesleyan, Amherst, Brown, Williams, Bow- 
doin, Hamilton, Union, Princeton, Harvard and Yale. 
The first six boats finished in a bunch, the sixth being 
within 2iy 2 seconds of the winner, and in the following 
order: Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, Dartmouth, Wes- 
leyan, and Yale. The second division of crews came in 



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in the following order: Amherst, Brown, Williams, Bow- 
doin ; all within 21 seconds of each other. 

The third division consisted of Hamilton and Union, 
with "no time taken," and finally Princeton, which had 
stopped at the two miles with a sick man for passenger. 

Thus Yale, although beaten by five crews, came within 
21^ seconds of the winning crew, which was, with one 
exception, the closest approximation to victory a defeated 
Yale crew had had up to that time. 

Another memorable thing in regard to this regatta, 
besides the closeness of the crews, was the success of the 
plan of rowing in " lanes," a hitherto untried experiment. 
Great good feeling existed after the race, the Harvard 
and Yale crews joining in a procession in honor of the 
victors and fraternizing to such a degree that the news- 
papers took it to be a sign of the perpetuity of the row- 
ing association, whereas those behind the scenes knew 
that both the Harvard and Yale crews would recommend 
their boat clubs to withdraw from the association and re- 
establish the annual Harvard-Yale race. 



1876 

By a vote of the Y. U. B. C. Yale withdrew from 
the general rowing association and challenged Harvard 
to an eight-oared, four-mile race. Harvard accepted 
promptly, but, influenced by the newspapers, decided to 
row once more in the general regatta before leaving it. 
Yale wanted the race at New London, but Harvard 
decided in favor of Springfield, and named June 30th as 
the time. All undergraduates of either college, and all 
of its graduates who were studying there for a second 
degree, were declared eligible for the crews. The day 
of the race was a favorable one, there being but a slight 
breeze. Yale took the west bank, and led during the 
whole race, winning by half a minute. The Yale stroke 
was very regular, never being below 32 or above 34, and 
not varying from 33 for the last half of the race, while 



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YALE BOAT HOUSE. 



Harvard's stroke ranged from 35 to 40, and showed the 
same rate for scarcely two succeeding minutes. 

The Yale and Harvard boats were of cedar and were 
the first eight-oared shells that ever competed in America. 

In the general regatta on Saratoga Lake, Cornell won, 
with Harvard second. As Yale defeated Harvard by 
half a minute in four miles, and Cornell defeated her by 
only four seconds in three miles, the Saratoga race was 
considered by Yale men to demonstrate the superiority 
of their crew to any college crew afloat of that year. 

On September 1st the Yale crew, four-oared, and con- 
sisting of R. J. Cook, (bow), W. W. Collins, D. H. Kel- 
logg, and J. Kennedy, (stroke), won the international and 



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intercollegiate regatta, of the Centennial Exhibition on 
the Schuylkill river, Philadelphia, defeating Columbia, 
and ist Trinity, Cambridge, England. They received an 
official award and a trophy of gold and silver valued at 
$1,000. 

1877 

Harvard's withdrawal from the general regatta so 
effectually discouraged the smaller colleges, that but 
three of them met together to make arrangements for a 
race in this year. Columbia and Princeton wanted a 
four-oared contest, while Cornell wanted an eight-oared, 
in order to compare the result with that of the Yale-Har- 
vard race, and in order that the winners of these two 
races might compete. Harvard and Yale declining Cor- 
nell's proposals, no crew was formed there, and Colum- 
bia alone had a crew in training, which, finding no one to 
compete with, disbanded. The " Rowing Association of 
New England Colleges " originated by Dartmouth, failed 
completely also, this year, not a single crew beginning 
to train. Yale and Harvard were thus the only New 
England colleges where there was any boat-racing dur- 
ing the summer of 1877. 

The race took place at Springfield over the same 
course, as the previous year, on the 30th of June. The 
race was twice postponed on account of rough water, 
and was rowed in such a heavy sea that the only wonder 
was that both crews did not swamp. Harvard gained 
slowly but gradually through the race and won by seven 
seconds. The race was the most exhausting ever rowed 
in America, and the close finish proved that the crews 
were wonderfully well matched. During the last mile of 
the race the crews splashed badly and the outriggers, 
cutting through the waves, caused much water to be 
shipped. By an oversight, Yale had no washboards and 
had in addition the roughest course. It was, however, a 
most creditable and exciting contest. Both Harvard and 
Yale used this year paper shells built by Waters of Troy. 



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1878 

Harvard had this year the choice of the course and 
chose New London, although Yale now preferred Spring- 
field. The Yale crew chose quarters at Gale's ferry, on 
the Groton side of the Thames, about a mile above the 
starting point, and came down there nine days before the 
race. The Harvard crew took quarters a mile lower 
down, and came down four days before the race. 

The race occurred on the 28th of June, with Yale in 
the west course. Harvard at once took the lead and in- 
creased it till the finish, winning by forty-five seconds. The 
contest was distinguished as being the first aquatic event 
between American colleges of which the management 
was satisfactory to both oarsmen and spectators. The 
advantages of New London, consisting of its easy access 
from the great cities, the clear course, and the " moving 
grand-stand " of platform-cars running along the west 
bank of the river, were enthusiastically dwelt upon by all 
describing the race, and the sentiment that the annual 
race had at last found its proper home, was very gener- 
ally expressed. 

1879 

On the day appointed for the race the water was so 
rough that it was only after two postponements, and at 
half-past seven in the evening, that the race was actually 
started. The breeze had almost died out, and the tide 
was the last of the ebb. At the start Yale took the lead, 
but was quickly passed by Harvard, rowing 38 to Yale's 
36. Yale's form was very poor and her rowing ragged, 
while Harvard was doing magnificent work. At the 
second mile Harvard led by ten lengths ; and a proces- 
sion took place, in which Yale was distanced by a minute 
and forty-three seconds, or over quarter of a mile. This 
overwhelming defeat was due to the difference in skill of 
the two crews, Harvard being, as the papers stated, near 
perfection, while as for Yale the spectators were amazed 



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to " see how badly they could row." The arrangements 
at New London were all that could be desired, and as- 
sured the continuance of this place as the scene of the 
annual race. 

1880 

The first start of the race of this year was made about 
quarter of six in the evening of the 1st of July. The 
wind had died down, leaving a gentle swell. As both 
crews took the water, Yale rowed 37 to the minute, while 
Harvard rowed only 32, despite which Harvard led at 
ten strokes. At this moment, however, the Yale boat 
stopped and soon after Harvard did likewise. The cause 
of this was a broken outrigger at No. 5, in the Yale boat. 
The crews rowed back to their quarters and the spectators 
on the observation train waited. At seven o'clock the 
second start was made, with both crews rowing a higher 
stroke — Harvard 39 and Yale 41. Yale, with a hard 
spurt, gained a lead of a length at the half-mile flag. 
From there on she grew gradually ahead, winning a hard- 
fought race by eight lengths. 

1881 

The observation train left New London for the starting 
point at four o'clock in the afternoon of July 1st, and the 
usual postponement on account of rough water took 
place. During the wait a severe rain storm occurred, 
which, however, cleared the sky and smoothed the water. 
After the crew had been recalled for a false start made 
by Yale, a second start was made, in which Harvard got 
rather the advantage, the Yale boat not being yet in 
place. Yale, however, settled down to work and by the 
fourth stroke had nearly caught Harvard and was rowing 
48 to the minute. Passing Harvard by half a length she 
dropped to 38, and kept this up till the last half mile. 
At the mile flag, Yale led by five seconds ; during the sec- 



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27 



ond mile Harvard gained two seconds, which Yale re- 
gained in the third mile. Yale stuck to her 38, while 
Harvard quickened their stroke several times to diminish 
the gap. In the last half mile both crews put up the 
stroke, Yale doing 44 to Harvard's 40, and finishing a 
length and a half ahead. It was one of the hardest- 
fought races ever rowed in America, in spite of which 
both crews came in without any " done-up " men, which 
testified to faithful and skillful training. The Yale boat 
was a little too broad for her crew, requiring more 
muscle to pull than one of sharper build. She used the 
new Davis rigging, and was well pleased with it. 

1882 

This was the year of the well known "eel-grass" race 
— the most unsatisfactory race ever rowed between Har- 
vard and Yale. Captain Hull of the Yale crew, with the 
assistance of Mr. Davis, devised a new style of boat, with 
the ultimate object of attaining a quick stroke. The oars 
were separated from each other in pairs of starboard and 
port, so much room being thus taken up that the boat 
measured 68 feet, or nine feet longer than the average 
racing shell. In this scheme, form was completely sacri- 
ficed to rapidity of motion, the crew pulling a continual 
spurt of never less than 42 to the minute for the whole 
four miles. The only question in the minds of Yale's 
friends was whether the crew would be able to put enough 
force into each stroke to row fast. A little before twelve 
o'clock, on the 30th of June, the crew sstarted, Yale catch- 
ing the water first and leading at a stroke of 48 to the 
minute. At the mile Yale led by a length of clear water, 
but the coxswain losing his head steered through a patch 
of eel-grass near the east shore, owing to which they were 
19 seconds behind Harvard at the mile and a half. Al- 
though by this mistake the Yale crew lost eight lengths, 
they were not discouraged, but spurted right to the finish 
line. At the third mile Yale, pulling 45, was less than a 



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length behind Harvard, pulling 42. At three miles and a 
half the crews were almost even, when the coxswain, com- 
pletely rattled, mistook the flags and steered. over to the 
west. Yale finished half a length behind Harvard, having 
rowed every half mile faster than Harvard, except the 
third half mile when in the eel-grass. The race was the 
more disappointing from the fact that the Yale crew had 
made faster time on New Haven harbor than any previous 
crew. It is also remarkable to notice that, despite the eel- 
grass, the Yale crew made the fastest time ever yet made 
by any Yale crew over the New London course, either in 
practice or in a race. 

1883 

Another victory was scored this year for the Crimson, 
Yale having nearly the same crew of last year, and pulling 
the same rapid stroke, while Harvard, having mastered 
the principles of good rowing, tried no experiments, but 
perfected her form in the so-called English stroke. 

The race was started at 5:30 on the 29th of June. 
There was some head wind, and both boats had wash- 
boards. Yale got the better start but splashed badly, 
with a 40 stroke. Harvard started with 40, but dropping 
to 37, gained on Yale, leading her by a length at the mile. 
Harvard's coxswain avoided the dangerous eel-grass, and 
at the mile and a half Harvard had the race with three 
lengths to her credit. The Yale crew now began to get 
a little ragged, and seemed to lack life and snap. They 
followed doggedly, however, behind the clean, easy swing 
of the Harvard crew. Towards the finish Yale spurted 
hopelessly to 46, and were defeated by fifteen lengths. 
The result of this race, in regard to Yale rowing, was to 
kill the "donkey-engine" stroke as it has been called, 
and to lead Yale oarsmen back to the old stroke, with 
which they had not, to be sure, been uniformly successful, 
but with which they had never given Harvard such a 
walk-over as the race of '83. 



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1884 

In this year the coaching of Mr. Robert J. Cook pro- 
duced a Yale crew that was the finest that, up to this 
time, ever sat on the water, and one that lowered the 
record to 20 minutes, 31 seconds. The observation train 
was a light one this year owing to a continued rain 
storm. During the race, however, the clouds cleared a 
little, and the wind died away, leaving beautiful water. 
Yale started with 40, Harvard with 37. Yale drew away 
gradually, being a length ahead at the mile. At the 
mile and a half the two crews were even. The excite- 
ment was tremendous. Yale stuck to the same steady 
stroke, while Harvard was spurting to her limit. At the 
two miles Harvard led by half a length. At the two and 
a half mile flag the Yale boat drew ahead, while the Har- 
vard men showed signs of great exhaustion. At the three 
mile Yale had two lengths, and at the finish four lengths. 
The Yale crew rowed its last mile in superb form and 
finished in good condition. 



1885 

As the crews rowed up to the start this year, it was 
noticed that Harvard had a new stroke, the chief charac- 
teristics of which were the stronger pull in the middle of 
the stroke, and the slow, controlled slide at the catch and 
at the finish. The Yale crew appeared very heavy, but 
their difference in size made the boat seem ragged. Their 
stroke appeared to be almost the same as last year, only 
somewhat faster and with a sharp hitch at the beginning. 
It was, in a word, the Cook stroke, taught the crew by Mr. 
Hull, and therefore adapted more or less to the " donkey- 
engine " stroke of the latter. After the first ten strokes 
Harvard led, in spite of Yale's rapid stroke and desperate 
efforts. At the mile Harvard led by four lengths and 
dropped her stroke, content to hold her lead. The Yale 
crew were evidently laboring far more than Harvard, and 



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their greater exertions were beginning to tell on them. 
At the beginning of the third mile of the race they en- 
deavored to spurt, but, unable to stand the pressure, fell 
back and came in a minute and a quarter behind the win- 
ning crew. The Yale crew were poorly trained as well 
as poorly coached, four men being over-trained and four 
men under-trained. The time made, 25 minutes, 15 sec- 
onds, was fair, considering the strong south wind that 
blew up the course, and the rough water. 



1886 

With but one old man on the Yale crew, the chances 
appeared greatly against Yale, to the uninitiated who 
came down to New London in 1886. The personal efforts 
of Mr. Cook in coaching, however, and the most devoted 
work and most faithful training on the part of the crew 
turned the tables and defeated almost the same men who 
won such glory for Harvard the year before. It was in 
this year that rowing may fairly be said to have got a 
good foundation at Yale. The principles of good rowing 
were diligently learned by the crew, all but one of whom 
returned to college in 1887. Their services in coaching 
class crews and in setting an example of good form to all 
the rowing men of Yale can hardly be over-estimated. One 
week before the Harvard race, Yale rowed a race with the 
University of Pennsylvania, defeating her easily by about 
twenty lengths. The Yale-Harvard race, which took place 
July 2d, was postponed from the morning until afternoon 
because of rough water, and was then rowed on the 
flood tide up stream, from Winthrop's Point to Gale's 
Ferry, being the first University race rowed up-stream. 
Both crews started at 36 and were neck and neck for 
nearly half a mile, when Yale's long stroke at 32 and 
33 passed Harvard rowing 37. The fact that Harvard 
did not lead at the start was considered most favorable 
to Yale, it having been predicted that Harvard would 
lead with her rapid stroke, and that Yale's only hope for 



ROWING. 31 

victory lay in sticking to her long swing and passing 
Harvard during the fourth mile. Between the two-and-a- 
half-mile and three mile flags Harvard made a magnifi- 
cent spurt, whose effectiveness was increased by the fact 
that Yale was in slack water near the eel-grass. Yale, 
getting clear, however, gained gradually and finished a 
winner by seven lengths. This year Yale entered a 
freshman crew in the race betwen the Harvard and 
Columbia freshmen. The Yale freshmen were undoubt- 
edly superior to their opponents both in form and strength, 
but bad judgment in starting the race in rough water 
deprived her of all chances of victory. In drawing for 
courses the Harvard freshmen got the west, Columbia 
the middle, and Yale the east course. By this arrange- 
ment Harvard and partly also Columbia were protected 
from the wind by the western shore, while Yale had 
the roughest water and the full force of the wind. At 
the start Columbia rowed 38, Yale 36, and Harvard 35, 
but on the first ten strokes Yale drew away, with Colum- 
bia next, and Harvard last. In quarter of a mile Yale ran 
into rough water, and just before the half mile was 
reached a large wave broke in the paper top of the shell, 
swamping the boat. The Yale launch quickly rescued 
the swimming oarsmen, and the race went on with both 
remaining crews rowing in poor form. The Harvard 
freshmen defeated the Columbia freshmen by four lengths, 
the Columbia boat coming in half full of water. 



1887 

With seven victorious oarsmen in college the prospects 
for a good crew this year were most flattering. Experience, 
however, had taught Yale to beware of old crews and had, 
moreover, taught her that, although Yale had sometimes 
wretchedly slow crews, the standard of oarsmanship at 
Harvard was uniformly higher, and that Harvard crews 
even when beaten were always fast. The usual rowing 
in the fall was done, and when the weather prevented 



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work on the harbor, the crew rowed in a stationary barge 
placed in a tank in the basement of the gymnasium. 
Watermanship was thus practiced all the winter, in addi- 
tion to the usual gymnasium work and out-of-door run- 
ning. From the ist of March on, the crew had the ad- 
vantage of the coaching of Mr. Percy Bolton, '86, S., who 
had the advice and cooperation of Mr. Robert J. Cook. 
The diet of the crew may be given as being fairly repre- 
sentative of the latest ideas in regard to this branch of 
the training. For breakfast and supper the crew ate oat- 
meal, beefsteak, mutton-chops, eggs, stewed or baked, 
potatoes. For dinner, roast beef, mutton, fricasseed- 
chicken, potatoes, rice, macaroni, tomatoes, puddings, and 
watercresses in season. The work of the crew occupied, 
on an average, three hours every afternoon, besides which 
the men worked all the spring in pair-oars during the 
mornings, as their recitations would permit. 

A freshman race was rowed at New London between 
the Yale freshmen and the Pennsylvania freshmen, the 
Harvard freshmen refusing Yale's challenge. This re- 
sulted in an easy victory for the Yale freshmen. In 
another race the Harvard freshmen were defeated by 
the Columbia freshmen. 

Yale rowed a race with the University of Pennsylvania 
this year again, and defeated her with ease by about five 
lengths. Harvard also defeated Columbia, making, on 
very fast water, the record time of 20 minutes, 20 seconds. 
On the afternoon of the Harvard-Columbia race, the Yale 
crew rowed three miles on this fast water, in a few sec- 
onds under fifteen minutes, probably the fastest time ever 
made for that distance by an eight-oared crew in America. 
The Yale-Harvard race was started about seven o'clock 
on Friday, July ist. It was a perfect evening, the only 
drawback to a fast race being that the race was started 
down the river before the tide had quite turned to run 
out. The usual heavy observation train and procession 
of steamers followed the race. The harbor was more than 
usually gay, however, with some hundred and fifty yachts, 
gaily decorated with flags. For half a mile Harvard had 



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33 



a slight advantage, but from there on Yale gradually drew 
ahead, and won by five lengths, the superior quality of 
her stroke manifesting itself more and more as the race 
progressed. While Harvard was in the slack water near 
the eel-grass, Yale did not gain as was expected, nor, on 
the other hand, did Harvard gain on Yale when she had 
the current below the two-and-a-half-mile flag. It was a 
hard-fought race from start to finish, between two well- 
matched crews, of which Harvard was probably the bet- 
ter physically, while Yale rowed the more scientific 
stroke. 



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Harvard — 6 oared shell, 
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Course. 


Lake Quinsigamond. 

Ninth Intercollegiate Regatta. 

i}4 miles and return. Fine, 
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Lake Quinsigamond. 

Tenth Intercollegiate Regatta. 

1*4 miles and return. Fine 
weather, light breeze, smooth 
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Connecticut River, Springfield. 
Twelfth Intercollegiate Regatta. 
Second N. R. A. of A. C. 

3 miles straight-away down 
stream. Light breeze, good 
water. 


Connecticut River, Springfield. 
Thirteenth Intercoll. Regatta. 
Third N. R. A. of A. C. 

3 miles straight-away down 
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42 



ROWING. 



NUMBER OF YEARS UNIVERSITY CREW MEN HAVE ROWED. 





Yale. 


Harvard. 


One year, 


. 64 men. 


73 men. 


Two years, , 


27 men. 


33 men. 


Three years, . 


. 11 men. 


17 men. 


Four years, 


12 men. 


4 men. 


Five years, 


1 man. 




Total, 


115 men. 


127 men. 



Note. — R. J. Cook, Yale, '76, is the only man who has rowed five years. 
The following have rowed four years : 

Yale. — Copp, '69 ; McCook, '73 ; Kennedy, '75 S.; Thompson, '79 ; Rogers, 
'80 S.; Guernsey, /81 ; Storrs, '82; Hull, '83; Folsom, '83; Parrott, '83; 
Rogers, '83 ; Flanders, '85. 

Harvard. — Bancroft, '78 ; Jacobs, '79 ; Brigham, '80 ; Sawyer, 83. 



MORTALITY TABLE OF UNIVERSITY CREW MEN. 



Crew of 
Crew of 



Yale. 



'58-1 
'59—1 



'68—1 
'72—1 
'76 — 1 



Crew of 
Crew of 
Crew of 
Crew of '78 — 1 
Crew of '80 — 1 

Total, . 



('52-60) — 2 



('6o-'7o) — 1 



C 7 o-'8o)- 
('8o-'8 7 )- 



Crew of 
Crew of 
Crew of 
Crew of 
Crew of 
Crew of '65 — 2 
Crew of '68 — 1 



Harvard. 
52-3 
55—4 

58— 2 

59— i 

60 — 1 



Crew of '76 — 1 



Total, 



('52-60)— 10 

('6o-'7o)— 4 

('70-'8o)— 1 

('8o-'87)— o 
• 15 



Note. — Several of the deaths of the Yale oarsmen were due to accidents. 
Harvard's larger number of deaths is in noticeably more natural sequence. 



RESIDENCES OF UNIVERSITY CREW MEN. 





Yale. 


Harvard. 


Massachusetts, 


9 


78 


New York, 


3i 


16 


Connecticut, 


38 


2 


Pennsylvania, 


8 


4 


Illinois, 


6 


4 


Others, 


23 


23 


Total, 


115 


127 



ROWING. 



43 



The following have contributed to Yale — N. J., 4 ; Ohio, 4 ; Maine, 3 ; 
Georgia, 2 ; Iowa, 2 ; Kentucky, 2 ; Tennessee, Mississippi, Michigan, Can- 
ada, Chili, Hawaiian Islands. 

The following have contributed to Harvard — Maine, 3 ; N. J., 2 ; Georgia, 
2 ; N. H., 3 ; Maryland, 2 ; Missouri, 2 ; California, 2 ; Hawaiian Islands, 
2 ; Michigan, Mississippi, Vermont, S. C, Ohio. 

Note. — These figures will be found to conform closely to the general 
averages of Yale and Harvard men. 



STATISTICS OF EIGHT-OARED YALE-HARVARD UNIVERSITY 

RACES. 

Age. Weight. Height. 





Yale. Harvard. 


Yale. Harvard. 


Yale. Harvard. 
















1876 


• 23^ 


21% 


1 S S% 


159 


5- 9i 


5- 8^ 


1877 . 




20 


160 


165^ 


5-nK 




1878 




21 




r75>^ 






1879 . 


21 


22*/ 2 


168 


174^ 


5-11^ 


5-H 


1880 


• 21X 


22i/ 2 


176 


165 




5-ioK 


1881 . 


22X 


22 


176^ 


I73K 






1882 


. 22^ 


22 


I77K 


171K 


5- 11 


5-H 


1883 . 


23 


21 


172 


168^ 


5-H 


5.10 


1884 


. 21 


22 


168 


169 


5-10^ 


5- 10% 


1885 . 


22 


21 


175^ 


167 


5-H 


5-io^ 


1886 


. 22 


21^ 


160^ 


162^ 




5-™% 


1887 . 


22^ 


21^ 


158^ 


161 


5-9X 


5-ioK 


Average, . 


• 2lji 




167^ 


167^ 


5-10^ 


S-™% 



Note. — It is interesting to note that neither age, weight, nor height have 
any decided advantage, the oldest crews having won six times out of twelve, 
the lightest seven times out of twelve, and the shortest six times out of ten. 
It will thus be seen that the qualities that bring success in rowing are not to 
be mathematically computed. 

The essential similarity of the average Yale and Harvard oarsmen despite 
differences between individual Yale and Harvard crews of three and a half 
years in age, of eighteen pounds in weight and of three inches in height, 
is also noticeable. 



44 



ROWING. 



YALE AND HARVARD UNIVERSITY OARSMEN. 

The names are arranged from bow to stroke, except of the earliest Yale 
crew, the positions of which rest only on the authority of the memory of 
their classmates. 

f Indicates Captain. 

Residences of Yale men are assumed to be in Connecticut, if not other- 
wise indicated, and of Harvard men in Massachusetts. 
Numerals represent "times" made. 



1852 



Halcyon of Yale, 10.5. 
Albert E. Kent, '53, Suffield. 
Joseph S. French, '53, Bridgeport. 
Wm. C. Brewster, '53, McConnells- 

ville, O. 
Edward Harland, '53, Norwich. 
Joseph Warren, '53, Columbia, N. Y. 
Arthur E. Skelding, '53, Greenwich. 
William L. Hinman, "53, New Haven, 
fjames Hamilton, '53, Columbus, Ga. 
Richard Waite (cox.), '53, Toledo, O. 



Oneida of Harvard, 10. 
Charles Miles, '53, Roxbury. 
Charles F. Livermore, '53, Cambridge. 
Wm. H. Cunningham, '53, Boston. 
John Dwight, '52, Springfield. 
Charles J. Paine, '53, Boston. 
Sidney Willard, '52, Boston. 
Charles H. Hurd, '53, Charlestown. 
Thomas J. Curtis, '52, Boston, 
fjoseph M. Brown (cox.), '53, Boston. 



1855 



Nereid of Yale, 23.38. 
Adrian Terry, '54, S., Knoxville, 
Tenn. 

Chas. F. Johnson, '55, Oswego, N. Y. 
Henry W. Painter, M. S., West Haven. 
Theodore W. E. Belden, '57, West 

Springfield, Mass. 
Storrs O. Seymour, '57, Litchfield, 
fjoseph W. Wilson, L. S., Norwalk. 
Nathaniel W. Bumstead (cox.), '55, 

Boston, Mass. 



Iris of Harvard, 22. 
Joseph N. Willard, '57, Boston. 
William G. Goldsmith, '57, Andover. 
Channing Clapp, '55, Cambridge. 
Charles F. Walcott, '57, Salem. 
Benj. W. Crowninshield, '58, Boston. 
William H. Elliott, '57, Savannah, Ga. 
John Homans, '58, Boston. 
fSam. B. Parkman, '57, Savannah, Ga. 
James M. Brown (cox.), '53, Boston. 



1855 



Nautilus of Yale, 24.38. 
Jephtha Garrard, '58, Cincinnati, O. 
Ed. Curtis, '59 S„ New York City. 
George Lampson, '55, Quebec, Can. 
Granville T. Pierce, '55, South Britain. 
George M. Dorrance, '56, Bristol, Pa. 
f Samuel Scoville, '57, West Cornwall. 
George Tucker (cox.), '57, Hamilton, 
Bermuda. 



Y. Y. of Harvard, 22.3. 
Alexander Agassiz, '55, Cambridge. 
Stephen G. Perkins, '56, Boston. 
Langdon Erving, '55, Baltimore, Md. 
fjohn Erving, L. S., Charleston, S. C. 



ROWING. 



45 



Volante of Yale {no race). 
Fred. W. Stevens, '58, New York City 
Henry L. Johnson, '60, Jewett City. 
George E. Dunham, '59, Hartford. 
fWm. D. Morgan, '58, New York City 



1858 

University of Harvard {no race). 
Heyward Cutting, '59, New York City. 
Joseph H. Wales, '61, Boston. 
Joseph H. Ellison, '59, Waltham. 
Robert B. Gelston, '58, Baltimore, Md. 
Caspar Crowninshield, '60, Boston. 
fBenj. W. Crowninshield, '58, Boston. 



1859 



Yale, 20.18 and ig.14. 
Fred. H. Colton, '60, Longmeadow, 
Mass. 

Charles H. Owen, '60, Hartford. 
Henry W. Camp, '60, Hartford. 
Joseph H. Twichell, '59, Plantsville. 
Charles T. Stanton, '61, Stonington. 
fHenry L. Johnson, '60, Jewett City. 
Hezekiah Walkins (cox.), '59, Liberty, 
N. Y. 



Harvard, ig.18 and ig.16. 
f Joseph H. Ellison, '59, Waltham. 
Joseph H. Wales, '6r, Boston. 
Henry S. Russell, '60, West Roxbury. 
Edward G. Abbott, '6o, Lowell. 
William H. Forbes, '61, Milton. 
Caspar Crowninshield, '60, Boston. 



i860 



Yale, ig.J. 
H. Brayton Ives, '61, New Haven. 
Eugene L. Richards, '60, Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 

Edward P. McKinney, '61, Bingham- 

ton, N. Y. 
Wm. E. Bradley, '60, New Canaan. 
Charles T. Stanton, '61, Stonington. 
fHenry L. Johnson, '60, Jewett City. 
Charles G. Merrill (cox.), '61, New- 

buryport, Mass. 



Harvard, 18.5J. 
Joseph H. Wales, '61, Boston. 
Henry Ropes, '62, Boston. 
William H. Ker, '62, Natchez, Miss. 
Edward G. Abbott, '60, Lowell. 
Calvin M. Woodward, '60, Fitchburg. 
fCaspar Crowninshield, '60, Boston. 



1864 



Yale, ig.i. 
Wm. W. Scranton, '65, Scranton, Pa. 
Edmund Coffin, '66, Irvington, N. Y. 
Edward B. Bennett, '66, Hampton. 
Louis Stoskopf, '65, Freeport, 111. 
Morris W. Seymour, '66, Litchfield. 
fWilbur R. Bacon, '65, New Haven. 



Harvard, ig.43%. 
Edwin Farnham, '66, Beverly, N. J. 
Edward C. Perkins, '66, Cincinnati, O. 
John Greenough, '65, Jamaica Plains. 
Thomas Nelson, '66, Boston. 
Robert S. Peabody, '66, Boston. 
fHoratio G. Curtis, '65, Boston. 



4 6 



ROWING. 



Yale, 17.42%. 
Wm. W. Scranton, '65 Scranton, Pa. 
Edmund Coffin, '66, Irvington, N. Y. 
Isaac Pierson, '66, Hartford. 
Louis Stoskopf, '65, Freeport, 111. 
Edward B. Bennett, '66, Hampton. 
fWilbur R. Bacon, '65, New Haven. 



1865 



Harvard, i8.g. 
Charles H. McBurney, '66, Roxbury. 
Edward H. Clarke, '66, St. Louis, Mo. 
Edward N. Fenno, '66, Boston. 
William Blaikie, '66, Boston. 
Edward T. Wilkinson, '66, Cambridge, 
f Fred. Crowninshield, '66, Boston. 



1866 



Yale, ig.io. 
Frank Brown, '66, Newburg, N. Y. 
Edmund Coffin, '66, Irvington, N. Y. 
Arthur D. Bissell, '67, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Wm. E. Wheeler, '66, Portville, N. Y. 
Wm. A. Copp, '69, Grafton, Mass. 
fEdward B. Bennett, '66, Hampton. 



Harvard, 18.43. 
Charles H. McBurney, '66, Roxbury. 
Alden P. Loring, '69, Boston. 
Robert S. Peabody, '66, Boston. 
Edward N. Fenno, '66, Boston. 
Edward T.Wilkinson, '66, Cambridge. 
fWilliam Blaikie, '66, Boston. 



1867 

Yale, ig.23%. 
Geo. A. Adee, '67, Westchester, N. Y. 
William H. Ferry, '68, Chicago, 111. 
Jacob Coffin, '68, Irvington, N. Y. 
William H. Lee, '70, Chicago, 111. 
fSamuel Parry, '68, Chester, N. J. 
William A. Copp, '69, Grafton, Mass. 



Harvard, 18.13. 
Geo. W. Holdrege, '66, Irvington, N.Y. 
Wm. W. Richards, '68, N. Y. City. 
Robert C. Watson, '69, Milton. 
Thomas S. Edmands, '67, Newton. 
William H. Simmons, '69, Concord, 
f Alden P. Loring, '69, Boston. 



Yale, i8.s8y 2 . 
Roderic Terry, '70, Irvington, N. Y. 
Sylvester F. Bucklin, '69, Marlboro, 
Mass. 

Geo. W. Drew, '70, Winterport, Me. 
William H. Lee, '70, Chicago, 111. 
Wm. A. Copp, '69, Grafton, Mass. 
fSamuel Parry, '68, Clinton, N. Y. 



1868 

Harvard, 17.48%. 
fGeo. W. Holdredge, '68, Irvington, 
N. Y. 

William W. Richards, '68, N. Y. City. 
John W. McBurney, '69, Roxbury. 
Wm. H. Simmons, '69, Concord. 
Robert C. Watson, '69, Milton. 
Alden P. Loring, '69, Boston. 



1869 



Yale, 1 8.1 1. 
Roderic Terry, '70, Irvington, N. Y. 
Edgar D. Coonley, '71, Greenville, 
N. Y. 

William H. Lee, '70, Chicago, 111. 
David McCoy Bone, '70, Petersburg, 
111. 

fWilliam A. Copp, '69, Grafton, Mass. 
Geo. W. Drew, '70, Winterport, Me. 



Harvard, 18.2. 
fNathaniel G. Read, '71, Cambridge. 
George I. Jones, '71, Templeton. 
Grinnell Willis, '70, Cornwall, N. Y. 
Joseph F. Fay, L. S., Boston. 
Theophilus Parsons, '70, Brookline. 
Francis O. Lyman, '71, Hawaiian Isles. 



ROWING. 



47 



1870 



Yale, 18.4S. 
Carrington Phelps, '70, North Cole- 
brook. 

Wilbur W. Flagg, '73, Yonkers, N. Y. 
William L. Cushing, '72, Bath, Me. 
Edgar D. Coonley, '71, Greenville, 
N. Y. 

Willis F. McCook, '73, Pittsburg, Pa. 
fDavid McCoy Bone, '70, Petersburg, 
111. 



Harvard won by a foul. 
fNathaniel G. Read, '71, Cambridge. 
Robert S. Russell, '72, Boston. 
James S. McCobb, '71, Portland, Me. 
Grinnell Willis, '70, Cornwall, N. Y. 
George I. Jones, '71, Templeton. 
Francis O. Lyman, '71, Hawaiian Isles. 



1871 



Yale, no race. 
f Frederick W. -Adee, '73, Westchester, 
N. Y. 

Charles S. Hemingway, '73, Fair 
Haven. 

Jeremiah Day, '73, Catskill, N. Y. 
Daniel Davenport, '73, Wilton. 
Willis F. McCook, '73, Pittsburg, Pa. 
Wilbur W. Flagg, '73, Yonkers, N. Y. 



Harvard, no race. 
fNathaniel G. Read, '71, Cambridge. 
William T. Sanger, '71, Cambridge. 
William C. Loring, '72, Boston. 
George I. Jones, '71, Templeton. 
Alanson Tucker, '72, Boston. 
George Bass, '71, Chicago, 111. 



1872 



Yale, 18.13. 
Frederick W. Adee, '73, Westchester, 
N. Y. 

George M. Gunn, '74, Milford. 
Robert J. Cook, '75. Fayette City, Pa. 
Henry A. Oaks, '75, New Haven. 
fWillis F. McCook, '73, Pittsburg, Pa. 
Jeremiah Day, '73, Catskill, N. Y. 



Harvard, 16.5J. 
Francis Bell, '73, Rye Beach. 
William J. Lloyd, '73, Pottsville, Pa. 
John Bryant, '73, Boston. 
William L. Morse, '74, Boston. 
Wendell Goodwin, '74, Jamaica Plains. 
fRichard H. Dana, '74, Boston. 



1873 



Yale, i6.jg. 
Herbert G. Fowler, '74, Stoneham, 
Mass. 

Jeremiah Day, '73, Catskill, N. Y. 
Julian Kennedy, '75, S., Struthers, 
O. 

Willis F. McCook, '73, Pittsburg, Pa. 
Henry Meyer, '73, Pittsburg, Penn. 
fRobert J. Cook, '76, Fayette City, Pa. 



Harvard, time uncertain. 
Arthur L. Devens, '74, Cambridge. 
Tucker Daland, '73, Boston. 
Wendell Goodwin, '74, Jamaica Plains. 
William L. Morse, '74, Boston. 
Daniel C. Bacon, '76, Jamaica Plains. 
fRichard H. Dana, '74, Boston. 



4 8 



ROWING. 



i874 



Yale {broke an oar). 
George L. Brownell, '75, S., East 

Haddam. 
Frederick Wood, '76, S., Norwalk. 
David H. Kellogg, '76, Spuyten Duy- 

vil, N. Y. 

William C. Hall, '75, S., Buffalo, 
N. Y. 

Julian Kennedy, '75, S., Struthers, 
O. 

f Robert J. Cook, '76, Fayette City, Pa. 



Harvard, 16.54. 
Walter J. Otis, S. S., Chicago, 111. 
William R. Taylor, '77, N. Y. City. 
William L. Morse, '74, Boston. 
fWendell Goodwin, '74, Jamaica 
Plains. 

Daniel C. Bacon, '76, Jamaica Plains. 
Richard H. Dana, '74, Boston. 



1875 



Yale, 17.14%. 
George L. Brownell, '75, S., East 
Haddam. 

William C. Hall, '75, S., Buffalo, 
N. Y. 

David H. Kellogg, '76, Spuyten Duy- 

vill, N. Y. 
Charles N. Fowler, '76, Lena, 111. 
Julian Kennedy, '75, S., Struthers* 

O. 

fRobert J. Cook, '76, Fayette City, Pa- 



Ha?vard, iy.J. 
Francis R. Appleton, '75, N. Y. City. 
Montgomery James, S. S., Cambridge* 
Wm. R. Taylor, '77, Jefferson, N. Y. 
f Daniel C. Bacon, '76, Jamaica Plains. 
Charles W. Wetmore, '75, Marquette, 
Mich. 

Walter J. Otis, S. S., Chicago, 111. 



1876 



Yale, 22.2, 
John W. Wescott, L. S., New Haven. 
Frederick Wood, '76, S., Norwalk. 
Elbridge C. Cooke, '77, Worcester 
Mass. 

David H. Kellogg, '76, Spuyten Duy. 
vil, N. Y. 

William W. Collin, '77, Penn Yan, 
N. Y. 

Oliver D. Thompson, '79, Butler, Pa 
Julian Kennedy, '75, S., Struthers, 
O. 

fRobert J. Cook, '76, Fayette City, Pa 
Charles F. Aldrich, (cox.), '79, Wor- 
cester, Mass. 



Harvard, 22.31. 
Albert W. Morgan, '78, N. Y. City. 
George Irving, '75, Taunton. 
Edward D. Thayer, S. S., Worcester. 
Martin R. Jacobs, '79, Brownsville, 
Penn. 

Wm. M. Le Moyne, '78, Chicago, 111. 
Montgomery James, S. S., Cambridge. 
Joel C. Bolan, '76, Charlestown. 
fWilliam A. Bancroft, '78, Cambridge. 
George L. Cheney, (cox.), '78, Essex, 
Conn. 



ROWING. 



49 



1877 



Yale, 24.43. 
Gerald T. Hart, '78, S., New Britain. 
Herman Livingston, '79, N. Y. City. 
Frank E. Hyde, '79, Hartford. 
William K. James, '78, Hamburg, la. 
Elbridge C. Cooke, '77, Worcester, 
Mass. 

Oliver D. Thompson, '79, Butler, Pa. 
fWilliam W. Collin, '77, Penn Yan, 
N. Y. 

Frederick Wood, L. S., Norwalk. 
Chas. F. Aldrich, (cox.), '79, Worces- 
ter, Mass. 



Harvard, 24.36. 
Alvah Crocker, '79, Fitchburg. 
Nat. M. Brigham, '80, Natick. 
Burton J. Legate, '77, Leominster. 
Wm. M. Le Moyne, '7S, Chicago, 111. 
Martin R. Jacobs, '79, Brownsville, Pa. 
William H. Schwartz, '79, Bangor, Me. 
Frederick W. Smith, '79, Worcester. 
fWilliam A. Bancroft, '78, Cambridge. 
Frederick H. Allen, (cox.), '80, Hono- 
lulu, S. I. 



1878 



Yale, 2I.2Q. 
Julian W. Curtiss, '79, Fairfield. 
Frank E. Hyde, '79, Hartford. 
Bruce S. Keator, '79, Roxbury, N. Y. 
Herman Livingston, '79, N. Y. City. 
Harry W. Taft, '80, Cincinnati, O. 
Geo. B. Rogers, '80, S., Lexington, 
Mass. 

David Trumbull, T. S., Valparaiso, 
Chili. 

fOliver D. Thompson, '79, Butler, Pa. 
Chas. F. Aldrich, (cox.), '79, Worces- 
ter, Mass. 



Harvard, 20.43. 

Alvah Crocker, '79, Fitchburg. 

Nat. M. Brigham, '80, Natick. 

Burton J. Legate, '77, Leominster. 

Martin R. Jacobs, '79, Brownsville, Pa. 

Van Der Lynn Stow, '80, San Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 

William H. Schwartz, '79, Bangor, Me. 

Frederick W. Smith, '79, Worcester. 

fWilliam A. Bancroft, '78, Cambridge. 

Frederick H. Allen, (cox.), '80, Hono- 
lulu, S. I. 



1879 



. Yale, 23 m., 38 s. 
John B. Collins, '81, St. Joseph, Mo. 
T. H. Patterson, L. S., Georgetown, 
Ky. 

Charles B. Storrs, '82, N. Y. City. 
fOliver D. Thompson, '79, Butler, Pa. 
John N. Keller, '80, Paris, Ky. 
Geo. B. Rogers, '80, S., Lexington, 
Mass. 

Harry W. Taft, '80, Cincinnati, O. 
Philo C. Fuller, '81, Grand Rapids, 
Mich. 

Augustine Fitzgerald, (cox.), '82, 
Litchfield. 



Harvard, 22 m., 13 s. 

Richard Trimble, '80, New York City. 

Nat. M. Brigham, '80, Natick. 

Francis Peabody, Jr., L. S., Danvers. 

Martin R. Jacobs, '79, Brownsville, Pa. 

Van Der Lynn Stow, '80, San Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 

Wm. H. Schwartz, '79, Bangor, Me. 

Frederick W. Smith, '79, Worcester. 

fWm. A. Bancroft, '78, Cambridge. 

Frederick H. Allen, (cox.), '80, Hono- 
lulu, S. I. 



50 



ROWING. 



1880 



Yale, 24 m., 27 s. 
John B. Collins, '8i, St. Joseph, Mo. 
Philo C. Fuller, '81, Grand Rapids, 
Mich. 

Frederick W. Rogers, '83, Lexington, 
Mass. 

Nathaniel T. Guernsey, '81, Dubuque, 
Iowa. 

Louis K. Hull, '83, Lebanon. 
fGeo. B. Rogers, '80, S., Lexington, 
Mass. 

Chas. B. Storrs, '82, New York City. 
Harry T. Folsom, '83, Orange, N. J. 
Mun Yew Chung, (cox.), '83, Han 
Shan, China. 



Harvard, 25 m., g s. 
Edward W. Atkinson, '81, Brookline. 
Wm. Freeland, '81, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Herbert B. Howard, '81, Bellows 
Falls, Vt. 

Edward D. Brandegee, '81, Utica, 
N. Y. 

James Otis, '81, Roxbury. 
Nat. M. Brigham, '80, Natick. 
Robert Bacon, '80, Jamaica Plains. 
fRichard Trimble, '80, N. Y. City. 
Sabin Pond Sanger, (cox.), '83, Ban- 
gor, Me. 



Yale, 22 m., ij s. 
fjohn B. Collins, '81, St. Joseph, Mo. 
Philo C. Fuller, '81, Grand Rapids, 
Mich. 

Frederick W. Rogers, '83, Cambridge, 
Mass. 

Nathaniel T. Guernsey, '81, Dubuque, 
Iowa. 

Louis K. Hull, '83, Lebanon. 
Geo. B. Rogers, L. S., Cambridge, 
Mass. 

Chas. B. Storrs, '82, New York City. 
Harry T. Folsom, '83, Orange, N. J. 
Mun Yew Chung, (cox.), '83, Han 
Shan, China. 



Harvard, 22 m., ig s. 
fEdward D. Brandegee, '81, Utica, 
N. Y. 

Fred. L. Sawyer, '83, Cumberland 
Centre, Me. 

Edward T. Cabot, '83, Brookline. 

Chas. M. Hammond, '83, New Lon- 
don, Conn. 

Oscar J. Pfeiffer, M. S., Portsmouth, 
N. H. 

Seymour I. Hudgens, '84, Sandwich 
Islands. 

Wm. Chalfant, Jr., '82, Unionsville, Pa. 
Chas. P. Curtis, '83, Swampscott. 
Julius Buchman, (cox.), '83, Ft. Wash- 
ington, N. Y. 



Yale, 20 m., ^o]/ z s. 
Henry R. Flanders, '85, W. Tisbury, 
Mass. 

Joseph R. Parrott, '83, Oxford, Me. 
Frederick W. Rogers, '83, Cambridge, 
Mass. 

Nathaniel T. Guernsey, L. S., Du- 
buque, Iowa. 

fLouis K. Hull, '83, Lebanon. 

Wm. H. Hyndman, '84, Newburgh, 
N. Y. 

Chas. B. Storrs, '82, New York City. 
Harry T. Folsom, '83, Orange, N. J. 
David Plessner, (cox.), '85, Holden, 
Mo. 



Harvard, 20.47 l /z s - 
Wm. W. Mumford, '84, Rochester, 
N. Y. 

Fred. L. Sawyer, '83, Cumberland 
Centre, Me. 

Robert P. Perkins, '84, N. Y. City. 

fChas. N. Hammond, '83, New Lon- 
don, Conn. 

Edmund A. S. Clark, '84, N. Y. City. 

Seymour I. Hudgens, '84, Sandwich 
Islands. 

Wm. Chalfant, Jr., '82,Unionsville, Pa. 
Chas. P. Curtis, '83, Swampscott. 
Sabin Pond Sanger, (cox.), '83, Ban- 
gor, Me. 



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51 



1883 



Yale, 26.39. 
Henry R. Flanders, '85, W. Tisbury, 
Mass. 

Joseph R. Parrott, '83, Oxford, Me. 

fLouis K. Hull, '83, Lebanon. 

Nathaniel T. Guernsey, L. S., Du- 
buque, Iowa. 

Frank G. Peters, '86, Syracuse, N. Y. 

Wm. H. Hyndman, '84, Newburgh, 
N. Y. 

Frederick W. Rogers, '83, Cambridge, 
Mass. • 

Harry T. Folsom, '83, Orange, N. J. 
D. B. Tucker, (cox.), '83, New Haven. 



Harvard, 2^.46y z . 
Wm. W. Mumford, '84, Rochester, 
N. Y. 

Wm. G. Borland, '86, New London, 
Conn. 

James J. Storrow, '85, Boston. 

fChas. M. Hammond, '83, New Lon- 
don, Conn. 

E. A. S. Clarke, '84, New York City. 

Fred. L. Sawyer, '83, Cumberland 
Centre, Me. 

Chas. M. Belshaw, '83, San Francisco, 
Cal. 

Robert P. Perkins, '84, N. Y. City. 
S. P. Sanger, (cox.), '83, Bangor, Me. 



1884 



Yale, 20 m., ji s. 
Richard S. Storrs, '85, Orange, N. J. 
Chas. B. Hobbs, '85, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
H. W. Patten, '86, S., North Haven. 
Alfred Cowles, Jr., '86, Chicago, 111. 
Frank G. Peters, '86, Syracuse, N. Y. 
J. R. Parrott, L. S., Oxford, Me. 
J. F. Scott, '84, W. Philadelphia, Pa. 
fH. R. Flanders, '85, W. Tisbury, 
Mass. 

L. E. Cadwell, (cox.), '86, S., New 
Haven. 



Harvard, 20 m., 48 s. 
J. R. Yocum, '85, Staten Island, N. Y. 
A. Keith, '85, Quincy. 
J. J. Storrow, '85, Boston. 
F. L. Sawyer, L. S., Cumberland Cen- 
tre, Me. 

W. G. Borland, '86, New London, Ct. 
S. T. Hudgens, '84, Sandwich Islands. 
W. S. Bryant, '84, Boston. 
fR. P. Perkins, '84, New York City. 
Charles Davis, (cox,), '84, Lexington. 



1885 



Yale, 26 m., 30 s. 
C. S. Dodge, '85, New York City. 
R. S. Storrs, '85, Orange, N. J. 
H. W. Patten, '86 S., North Haven. 
C. B. Hobbs, '85, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Alfred Cowles, Jr., '86, Chicago, 111. 
J. R. Parrott, L. S., Oxford, Me. 
F. G. Peters, '86, Syracuse, N. Y. 
fH. R. Flanders, '85, W. Tisbury, 
Mass. 

L. E. Cadwell, (cox.), '86 S., New 
Haven. 



Harvard, 23 m., i5)/ 2 s. 
H. W. Keyes, '87, Boston. 
J. J. Colony, '85, Keene, N. H. 
T. P. Burgess, '87, Dedham. 
G. S. Mumford, '87, Rochester, N. Y. 
J. R. Yocum, '85, Staten Island, N. Y. 
W. A. Brooks, '87, Haverhill, 
fj. J. Storrow, '85, Boston. 
R. A. F. Penrose, Jr., P. G. Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 
T. Q. Browne, Jr., (cox.), '88, Boston, 



52 



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j886 



Yale, 20 m., ^i}4 s. 
R. Appleton, '86, New York City. 
John Rogers, Jr., '87, Stamford. 
J. W. Middlebrook, '87, Wilton. 

F. A. Stevenson, '88, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

G. W. Woodruff, '89, Dimock, Penn. 
fA. Cowles, Jr., '86, Chicago, 111. 

C. W. Hartridge, '87, Savannah, Ga. 

E. L. Caldwell, '87, Windsor. 

L. E. Cadwell, (cox.), '86 S., N. Haven, 



Harvard, 21 m., 15%. s. 
fG. S. Mumford, '87, Rochester, N. Y. 
J. J. Colony, '85, Keene, N. H. 
J. R. Yocum, '85, Staten Island, N. Y. 
Franklin Remington, '87, Cazenovia, 
N. Y. 

T. P. Burgess, '87, Dedham. 
W. A. Brooks, Jr., '87, Haverhill. 
H. W. Keyes, '87, Boston. 
R. A. F. Penrose, Jr., P. G., Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 
T. Q. Browne, (cox.), '88, Boston. 



1887 



Yale, 22 m., j6 s. 
R. M. Wilcox, '88 S., Portland. 
C. O. Gill, '89, Orange, N. J. 
fjohn Rogers, Jr., '87, Stamford. 
J. W. Middlebrook, '87, Wilton. 
G. W. Woodruff, '89, Dimock, Penn. 

F. A. Stevenson, '88, Brooklyn, N. Y 

G. R. Carter, '88 S., Honolulu, S. I. 
E. L. Caldwell, '87, Windsor. 

R. Thompson, (cox.), '90, Schenectady. 



Harvard, 23 m., io]/ 2 s. 
A. P. Butler, '88, Jamaica Plain. 
J. W. Wood, Jr., '88, So. Orange, N.J. 
fH. W. Keyes, '87, Boston. 
C. E. Schroll, '89, Decatur, 111. 
J. T. Davis, Jr., '89, St. Louis, Mo. 
E. C. Pfeiffer, '89, Portsmouth, N. H. 
W. A. Brooks, Jr., '87, Haverhill. 
E. C. Storrow, '89, Brookline. 
T. Q. Browne, (cox.), '88, Boston. 



1852. 

1855. 
[859. 
i860. 
1864. 
1865. 
1866. 
1867. 
1868. 
1869. 
1870. 
1871. 
1872. 
1873. 
1874. 
1875. 
1876. 

1877. 
1878. 

1879. 
1880. 
1881. 
1882. 
1883. 
1884. 
1885. 
1886. 
1887. 



NAMES OF REFEREES. 

Colonel N. Baker, of Concord, N. H. 

Colonel James M. Thompson, of Springfield, Mass. 

James McKay (boat builder), of New York. 

Nathaniel Paine (Atlanta Boat Club), of Worcester, Mass. 

Robert M. Clark, of Boston, Mass. 

Joshua Ward (professional oarsman), of Cornwall, N. Y. 

W. H. Carpenter, of Providence, R. I. 

Robert M. Clark, of Boston, Mass. 

Arthur F. Dexter, of Providence, R. I. 

A. H. Chamberlain, of Worcester, Mass. 

Edwin Brown, of Worcester, Mass. 

A. G. Baxter (Union Boat Club), of Boston, Mass. 

John C. Babcock (Nassau Boat Club), of New York. 

John C. Babcock (Nassau Boat Club), of New York. 

William Wood (trainer of gymnastics), of New York. 

James Watson (journalist), New York. 

Prof. Arthur M. Wheeler (Yale, '57), of New Haven, Conn. 
Prof. Alex. Agassiz (Harvard, '55), of Cambridge, Mass. 
Prof. Arthur M. Wheeler (Yale, '57), of New Haven, Conn. 
Prof. Alex. Agassiz (Harvard, '55), of Cambridge, Mass. 
Prof. Arthur M. Wheeler (Yale, '57), of New Haven, Conn. 
Prof. Alex. Agassiz (Harvard, '55), of Cambridge, Mass. 
Prof. Arthur M. Wheeler (Yale, '57), of New Haven, Conn. 
George A. Richards (Cambridge, Eng.), of Mass. 
Wm. Bradford (Cambridge, Eng.), of New York. 
R. C. Cornell. 

George L. Rives (Columbia), and Cambridge, Eng. 

George A. Richards (Cambridge, Eng.), of Cambridge, Mass. 



Foot Ball — 184.0-1887. 



PRE-INTERCOLLEGIATE PERIOD— 1840-1872. 

From time immemorial foot ball has been a favorite 
game at Yale. In the earliest prints of the college build- 
ings students have been depicted in front of them in tall 
steeple hats playing at foot ball. The sport was, of 
course, in its most primitive stage, being the mere kicking 
of a ball about the Green, with no other object. In course 
of time, however, it became the subject of rivalry between 
the two lower classes, and about 1840 an annual game 
sprang up between the Sophomores and Freshmen. This 
was really little more than a " rush," or a class scrim- 
mage, and was the forerunner of the " rushes," which 
used to take place at Hamilton Park and at the Yale 
Field. It was the custom for the challenges to be posted 
upon the doors of Lyceum and Atheneum. The follow- 
ing are the last challenge and answer posted: 

" Sophomores : 

" The Class of '61 hereby challenge the Class of '60 to a game of foot ball, 
best two in three." 

In behalf of the Class, 

R. L. Chamberlain, \ 

James W. McLane, V Committee. 

A. Sheridan Burt, ) 

The answer : 

" Come ! 
And like sacrifices in their trim, 
To the fire-eyed maid of smoky war, 
All hot and bleeding will we offer you." 

" To our youthful friends of the Class of Sixty-one : 

" We hereby accept your challenge to play the noble and time-honored 
game of Foot Ball, and appoint 2*4 o'clock p. m., on Saturday, October 10, 
1857, and the Foot Ball grounds, as time and place." 
In behalf of the Class of Sixty, 

L. J. Post, \ 

E. G. Massey, (-Committee. 

A. C. Palfrey, ) 



54 



FOOT BALL. 



The many spectators of these contests, including ladies, 
occupied the steps of the State House and other points 
of advantage, and displayed great interest. From a con- 
temporary account of the game between the classes of 
'56 and '57 we may derive some idea of the sport. This 
account describes the Sophomores as being most gro- 
tesque in their styles of dress and as having their faces 
painted in all imaginable colors. The game was started 
with the ball in the possession of the Freshmen, one of 
whom after making a feint, picked up the ball and rushed 
into the wedge-shaped phalanx of his classmates which 
opened to receive him. This phalanx then immediately 
closed and rushed forward in close column until it was 
checked by fourteen picked Sophomores. At this time, 
with the wedge held in check, others of the Sophomores 
broke through the flank guard, and seizing the men, 
hurled them aside and broke up the wedge into individ- 
uals, the contest becoming a question of mere physical 
strength. While the strife was going on the ball was 
extricated and, falling into the possession of a Sophomore, 
was carried off the field. This was pronounced a foul. 
The ball being brought back and the game started again, 
the ball was carried off by a Freshman. The umpires 
declared the game a draw. 

As a rule there was less organization than in the game 
described, the members of both classes contending as in- 
dividuals and without concert. The ball used in this 
game of 1853 was described as "a bladder ball, inclosed 
in a leathern case " and was a round one. The umpires 
were upper-class men. 

In 1849 tne class of '52 declined the challenge of the 
Freshmen, but so strong was college opinion in favor of 
the game that it was revived the following year. How- 
ever, in 1855 an d '5°s tne game was omitted owing to the 
action of the class of '59. Advantage was now taken 
by the college authorities to permanently extinguish the 
game thus for two years voluntarily suppressed, and when 
the challenge of the class of '6i to '60 quoted above was 
posted, a decree of the Faculty prohibited the game, and 
so ended the annual Sophomore-Freshman game. 



FOOT BALL. 



55 



The objection of the Faculty, however, was to the an- 
nual game, and not to foot ball itself, as is shown by their 
taking action a few days later " to preserve the right of 
the students to play foot ball on the public green." 
Originally the students had played foot ball on both the 
college green and the City Green, but in 1840 the Fac- 
ulty had forbidden their playing on the college grounds. 
The part of the City Green which had been so long used 
by the students for their games as to have been regarded 
by them as their own, was the part bounded by the State 
House and Chapel street and by College and Temple 
streets. In 1841 the students, while playing, came in col- 
lision with the firemen on parade who, endeavoring to 
drive them off the ground, met with a determined resist- 
ance. One of the leaders, Mr. Thomas Hudson Moody, 
of the class of '43, was arrested and fined $20, which fine, 
added to the " costs " of $80, was paid by his classmates. 
Complaints now became more frequent from those who 
had to pass through the Green, and despite the endeav- 
ors of the Faculty to preserve " the rights of the stu- 
dents," a by-law was passed February 1, 1858, forbidding 
the playing of foot ball, base ball, etc., on the streets and 
public squares of the city. From 1858 till 1870, foot ball 
at Yale was practically dead, although a foot ball was 
occasionally kicked on " the lot beyond the hospital." 

To the class of '7 2 a °d '73 is due the revival of the 
game. The class of '72 was notably fond of out-of-door 
exercise, and took many " Hare and Hound " runs and 
played occasional games of foot ball. At the beginning 
of their Sophomore year the '73 men, inspired by their 
example, were ready for out-of-door games, when D. S. 
Schaff, formerly of Rugby, and an enthusiastic admirer of 
foot ball, joined the class. His zeal for the game was 
such that he was at once able to make it popular. The 
difficulty now was for a suitable place to play. After an 
attempt to play on the City Green, which ended in some- 
thing very much like a riot, the students obtained a 
vacant lot on Elm street. Until 1876 this remained the 
regular practice ground, but being taken for other pur- 



56 



FOOT BALL. 



poses in this year the students moved to a lot on Dixwell 
avenue. 

The class of '73 formed a regular association in 1871, 
and sending challenges to the other classes, contended 
with them in four matches. These matches and all the 
matches since, which have been played in New Haven 
before the completion of the Yale Field in 1884, were 
played at Hamilton Park. 



INTERCOLLEGIATE— 1872-1887. 
1872 

At a meeting of the University, held October 31, 1872, 
it was voted to form a " Yale Foot Ball Association." 
Mr. D. S. Schaff was elected President. Up to this time 
the game had been played without any fixed rules, the 
players coming to an agreement among themselves as 
occasion required. During the fall of this year, however, 
a code of rules was adopted, of which the one most notice- 
ably different from those in present use was as follows : 

" 5 — No player shall pick up, throw or carry the ball, 
on any part of the field. Any violation of the regulation 
shall constitute a foul, and the player so offending shall 
throw the ball perpendicularly into the air from the place 
where the foul occurred, and the ball shall not be in play 
until it touches the ground." 

It will be seen that such features of the game as 
bounding, batting, bunting and babying were inevitable, 
and the rules lor off and on side entirely ignored. Touch- 
downs and trying at the goal were not thought of. 

In November of 1872, Yale sent out her first challenge 
for a game of foot ball to Columbia College, and on the 16th 
of November her first Intercollegiate game was played. It 
resulted in a victory of three straight goals for Yale, won 
in fifteen, fifty-eight and forty minutes respectively. The 
Columbia twenty was formed of men of uniformly good 
size, while the Yale twenty had some large men and some 
small men, of whom the latter, according to a newspaper 



FOOT BALL. 



57 



account, proved themselves no mean players. The Yale 
team excelled in discipline and organization and did not 
lack energy and endurance, while the Columbia men 
played with much spirit but less care and skill. The 
costumes worn were not unlike those used in the rushes. 
The game must have been very much like the present 
English association game of foot ball, which consists 
of kicking the ball on the ground. In this game push- 
ing with the hands was forbidden, but doing so with 
the shoulder was considered perfectly legitimate and an 
excellent play. It is curious to note that, when one of 
the Yale players was disabled by a kick and retired, a man 
was retired from the Columbia side to even up matters. 

The game was considered by all to have been a great 
success, and hopes were expressed for games in the 
future, although the difficulty of the Yale men in getting 
away from New Haven in term time was a great obstacle 
in the way of the game. This Columbia game was the 
only game of the season, a challenge being received from 
Princeton, but no game being arranged. 



1873 

On the 18th of October, a convention was held at the 
Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York to frame a code of 
rules to govern Intercollegiate games. Harvard refused 
to attend, but Princeton, Columbia and Rutgers accepted 
Yale's invitation. The rules adopted were substantially 
the same as those adopted by Yale the year before. 

Rutgers challenged Yale to a game, which was played 
at Hamilton Park, New Haven, October 25th. Yale won 
by a score of three goals to one. Another game was 
played in New Haven with Princeton, which she won by 
three successive goals. Princeton exhibited great skill 
in batting the ball and fairly outplayed Yale. A third 
game was played against eleven Englishmen, captained 
by Mr. G. C. Allen, of Eton, by eleven Yale men, which 
resulted in a victory for Yale by two goals to one. 



53 



FOOT BALL. 



1874 

Yale played three games in this year, all at Hamilton 
Park, New Haven. In the first Yale defeated Rutgers, 
six goals to nothing, and in the others she defeated 
Columbia, five goals to one and six goals to one. The 
game this year was noticeably rougher than the year 
before, although there had been no change in the rules. 
Yale no longer picked light teams, but the heaviest she 
could select. 

1875 

The season this year opened with a series of class 
championships, the last class series pla3^ed. On the 18th 
of September foot ball was put on a permanent basis by 
the adoption of a constitution. On October 16th dele- 
gates from Harvard and Yale met at Springfield to 
make arrangements for a game under "modified Rugby 
rules." The only concession granted to Yale was in the 
matter of fouls, in which the foul ball was to be thrown 
in the air and not placed on the ground. Yale under- 
took to play Harvard by these rules, which were new to 
her, while she played the other colleges by the old rules. 
The result was most disastrous, Yale being defeated by 
Columbia as well as Harvard. The only good result of 
the game with Harvard was that it led to the adoption of 
the Rugby rules in the following year. Four matches 
were played during the season. In the first Yale de- 
feated Rutgers by a score of four goals to one. In the 
second Harvard defeated Yale by a score of four goals 
and two touchdowns to nothing. This was the most in- 
teresting game yet seen in America. The spectators en- 
joyed Harvard's fine play to the full, almost without 
chagrin at Yale's defeat, because they could not blame 
the Yale team for not playing well a game which they 
had never seen played and did not understand. In the 
third match of the season, Yale defeated Wesleyan by six 
straight goals. The last game of the season and the last 
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Columbia, and resulted in a defeat for Yale by a score of 
three goals to two. In this year the oval Rugby ball 
was first introduced. 

1876 

In the fall a committee on rules was appointed and the 
Rugby rules adopted. Great interest in foot ball was 
shown throughout the college and the eleven was care- 
fully trained by Captain Baker. Harvard consented to 
play one game but declined to play a series. This game 
was played in New Haven on November 18th. The Yale 
plan was for the eleven to play on the defensive for the 
first half, and after the intermission to make a hard fight 
for a goal. During the first three-quarters of an hour the 
ball scarcely passed the center of the field, but at the 
beginning of the second half the Yale men carried it 
rapidly forward and a good kick by Thompson sent it 
over the string. The Yale team were then disposed so 
as to guard their goal line, and the game resulted in a 
victory for Yale by a score of one goal to none. Harvard 
made two touchdowns; but, according to previous agree- 
ment, these counted nothing. Harvard now wished to 
play a series but Yale refused. On the 23d of November, 
Harvard, Columbia and Princeton formed themselves 
into a foot ball association, which Yale refused to join. 
This association adopted the Rugby rules, with a few 
slight changes, the most important of which being a rule 
that four touchdowns should count as one goal. Yale 
defeated Princeton on Thanksgiving day at Hoboken by 
two goals to none. On December 2d the Harvard Fresh- 
men defeated the Yale Freshmen by three goals to none 
in a game played on Boston Common with the thermome- 
ter fourteen degrees below zero. On the 9th of Decem- 
ber, at Hoboken, Yale defeated Columbia by two goals 
and five touchdowns to one touchdown. The day was 
bitterly cold and the ground more or less covered with 
ice. This gave Yale the championship, with a total score 
of five goals and five touchdowns to one touchdown made 
against her. 



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1877 

Mr. Baker, now in the Law School, again captained 
and trained the team. The first game was played with 
Tufts, November 3d, and was won by Yale with one 
goal and four touchdowns to nothing. In the next game 
Yale defeated Trinity by seven goals and eleven touch- 
downs to nothing. On November 24th Yale defeated 
Stevens' Institute by thirteen goals and seventeen touch- 
downs to nothing. The Harvard and Yale Freshmen 
played two games, both of which the Harvard Freshmen 
won ; the first by one goal to none and the second by one 
touchdown to nothing. No game was played with Har- 
vard this year, Yale claiming that, as champion, she had 
the right to prescribe the number eleven for the team, 
while the association, of which Yale was not a member, 
prescribed fifteen. For the sake of a game Yale at 
length consented to play Princeton at Hoboken with 
fifteen. Yale made two touchdowns, but by previous 
agreement these did not count and the game was declared 
a draw. The game was said to have, been the best ever 
played in America up to that time. 

1878 

As both Harvard and Princeton insisted upon fifteen 
men to a side, Yale yielded. The first four games, two 
with Amherst and two with Trinity, were easy victories 
for Yale. ' On November 23d Yale defeated Harvard at 
Boston by a score of one goal to none. On their return, 
at 2 a. m., the victorious team was met by about three 
hundred students. This was the first time that the 
Faculty had ever permitted absence from any recitations 
for the sake of foot ball, and it virtually put foot ball on 
the same level with base ball. 

On Thanksgiving day Princeton defeated Yale at Ho- 
boken by one goal to none, largely owing to the over-con- 
fidence of the Yale team. This team was the largest and 
roughest Yale had hitherto sent out. 



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1879 

Yale's first game was played this year with the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, whom she easily defeated by 
three goals and five touchdowns to nothing. The game 
with Harvard was a very rough and hard-fought one. 
Although, according to the rules, it was a draw, Yale 
showed a slight superiority over Harvard by compelling 
her to make four safety touchdowns, while she made but 
two. The games against Rutgers and Columbia were 
easy victories. The great Yale-Princeton game was a 
repetition of Yale's game with Harvard, being technically 
a draw, with five safety touchdowns against Princeton 
and but two against Yale. Princeton played an entirely 
defensive game, by which to retain nominally the glory 
of the championship which she won in the previous year. 
For the season Yale's total score stood, ten goals and 
eleven touchdowns to nothing. 

1880 

Yale contended this year with five colleges, as in '79, 
the only change being a game with Brown University in 
place of Rutgers. The games with Columbia, Pennsyl- 
vania and Brown were easy victories. The Harvard 
game, played in Cambridge, was most closely fought. 
No scoring was done in the first half, both sides making 
safety touchdowns. Rain fell throughout the entire 
game, rendering everything very slippery and uncertain. 
A long kick for the Yale goal missed it by only three or 
four feet, this being, however, the only time Yale was in 
danger. The ball was forced down to the Harvard end 
and the intermission came with the play close under Har- 
vard's goal. In the second half, after much good play, 
Camp kicked a goal from the field and Watson made a 
touchdown, time being called before a try at goal could be 
had. It was noticeable that the " holding " of the Har- 
vard rushers was superior to that of the Yale men. 

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weather, the snow falling fast with a driving wind. So 
much snow had likewise fallen on the night preceding that 
a squad of men were set to work to shovel it off on the 
morning of the game. Princeton won the toss and Yale 
faced the wind. Yale made a safety. Despite the wind 
Yale kicked as well as rushed the ball, but losing posses- 
sion of it Princeton kicked and Yale made a second 
safety. Shortly after the ball was carried into Princeton's 
territory between her goal and twenty-five yard line, and 
she touched down for safety four times. The ball then 
passed into Yale's territory and she made her third 
safety. There was now little running, the progress of 
both sides being by kicking. In the second half, the ball 
was kept under Princeton's goal, and she touched down 
for safety five times in rapid succession. Having at 
length made eleven safeties (to Yale's five), she adopted a 
system of tactics by which to kill time, evidently consid- 
ering that the championship would hold over to her this 
year if Yale did not score upon her. The Princeton 
quarter-back time after time passed the ball to a rusher 
near at hand, around whom the rushers gathered and 
pushed until he called "down," when the process would 
be repeated. The game ended, with no score being made. 
Princeton claimed the championship on the ground of its 
being held over from her defeat of Yale with fifteens in 
1878, not remembering that Yale was champion with 
elevens, having defeated Princeton in 1876. Outside of 
these claims, however, the championship was claimed by 
Yale on the following grounds: The association con- 
sisted of four colleges, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and 
Yale. In this association Yale had gained two victories 
and one draw. Princeton had not yet played Columbia, 
nor did she do so. She claimed a forfeit for the game not 
played with Columbia, which the four captains of the 
association teams did not allow. Thus Yale won more 
games than any other college in the association, and 
thereby won the championship, although the association 
did not award it. 



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THE RUSH-LINE. 
l88l 

Yale's games with Amherst this year were easy vic- 
tories. The game with the University of Michigan was 
interesting as being the first one played by Yale with a 
Western college. The close game the Michigan men had 
played with Harvard led everyone to expect an exciting 
game and a possible defeat for Yale. It was an uneven 
contest, however, Yale keeping the ball in her enemy's 
territory and only being in danger once. Yale played a 
strong game with good passing work. 

The Harvard game was played in New Haven during 
a pouring rain. Both teams displayed excellent training 
and knowledge of the game, as is attested by the close- 
ness of the score, four safety touchdowns for Harvard 
and none for Yale. By a vote of the association safety 
touchdowns were made to count this year. 

The game with Columbia was not a very satisfactory 
one, as the Yale team played without spirit, probably 
underrating their opponents, and barely won by one goal 
to none. 

The game with Princeton was played on the Polo 
Grounds, New York, on Thanksgiving day. Owing to a 
very strong wind, there was a great deal of rushing and 



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but little kicking. Princeton evaded the rule of the 
association in regard to safety touchdowns counting, by 
making " touch in goals," which counted nothing, in 
place of safeties. This she had a right to do, but in not 
coming to the same agreement in regard to safeties as 
Harvard did with Yale, she laid herself open to the 
charge of preferring a draw game in preference to a 
defeat, which, however, natural in itself, was not con- 
sistent with the action of their delegates at the conven- 
tion. Both teams played well, yet Yale exhibited a 
superior game, by forcing Princeton to make four " touch- 
in-goal's " or practically safeties, in the first half, and in 
not losing the ball once during the second half, and in 
keeping it in Princeton's territory despite the adverse 
wind. 

Inasmuch as Princeton had played a drawn game with 
Harvard, while Yale had defeated Harvard, Yale won 
more association games during the season, and was 
formally awarded the championship. Her total score 
was nine goals and twelve touchdowns to four safeties. 

1882 

This season's play was noticeable for the larger number 
of games played by Yale and for the early beginning of 
the season, the first match being played October 7. In 
the Rutgers game, a touchdown was scored against Yale, 
this being the first point made against her since 1878. 
Yale played this year for the first time against Wesleyan, 
Rutgers and the Institute of Technology. The Harvard 
game was played at Cambridge, and resulted in a victory 
for Yale by a score of one goal and three touchdowns to 
nothing. Harvard having defeated Princeton, this game 
virtually decided the championship. A few minutes after 
the beginning of the game Yale made a touchdown. 
Harvard, in vain, attempted to break through what the 
papers called "the best rush line ever put on an Ameri- 
can field." When they found themselves unable to cope 
with the Yale men, to their credit be it said, they tried 



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no block game, but played the game for the sake of the 
game itself. 

Before the Princeton game played on the Polo Grounds 
several inches of snow had to be shoveled off the field. 
The chief feature of the game was the long kicking of 
Moffat for Princeton and Richards for Yale, which was 
described as resembling a game of lawn-tennis. The ball 
was carried nearly to Princeton's goal, and she touched 
down for a safety. A little later Yale made a touch- 
down and goal. Princeton was now on her mettle and, 
forcing the ball to the sixty-five yard-line, Haxall made a 
superb kick, giving a goal to Princeton and tieing the 
score. In the second half the struggle was tremendous, 
but the Yale weight and muscle forced the ball into 
Princeton's territory, and over her line. From this touch- 
down another goal was kicked, and the championship for 
1882 was won. The Yale's team was marked by an 
" almost impregnable rush-line," and by remarkably fine 
tackling, while Princeton, in the person of Moffat, '85, 
excelled in long distance kicking. 

1883 

A new method of counting goals, touchdowns, etc., by 
points, was introduced this year. By this plan, a goal 
from a touchdown counted six points, a goal from the field 
five points, a touchdown two points, and a safety one point. 

Yale commenced the season earlier than ever this year, 
playing the first game with Wesleyan on September 26. 
The Yale team was tremendously heavy, the team and 
two substitutes averaging 173^ lbs., while the rush-line 
averaged 185 lbs. 

As Princeton had defeated Harvard the chief interest 
in the Yale season centered in her game with Princeton, 
which took place on the Polo Grounds. Although the 
teams were evenly matched Yale forced the play, and a 
touchdown having been secured, a goal was kicked eight 
minutes after play began. No more scoring was done 
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during the game. Yale made many attempts to kick a 
goal from the field but was prevented by the fine play of 
the Princeton end-rushers who broke through and stop- 
ped the ball. The game was distinguished for fine indi- 
vidual plays, many brilliant runs and long kicks being 
made. In the kicking, Moffat, Princeton '85, excelled. 

The game with Harvard, also played on the Polo 
Grounds, was attended by ten thousand people. At the 
start Yale slowly carried the play down into Harvard's 
territory. After four unsuccessful tries at goal-kicking 
from the field, during which time Harvard made a safety, 
Yale kicked a goal from the field. After Yale had made 
another goal from a touchdown, good play on the part of 
the Harvard half-backs, and some sharp running by the 
Harvard rushers, gave Harvard a touchdown, from which 
no goal was kicked. A long drop-kick from the side of the 
field gave Yale another goal from the field, and another 
touchdown and goal completed the score, which stood 
twenty-three points for Yale and two for Harvard. 

The Harvard Committee on Athletics composed of 
members of the Faculty, had before the Yale-Harvard 
game come to the conclusion that foot ball had degener- 
ated into a brutal sport, and that until some change in the 
rules were made, the Harvard eleven should not be 
allowed to play any games. They took the curious posi- 
tion of objecting to certain rules whose purpose was the 
prevention of rough play, saying that they allowed of 
no other inference but that " a manly spirit of fair play 
was not expected to govern the conduct of all players, 
but that on the contrary the spirit of sharpers and of 
roughs had to be guarded against." Owing, however, to 
the unfortunate financial condition into which both the 
Harvard and Yale foot ball clubs would be thrown by 
their action, they allowed the Harvard team to play 
under the following conditions : First, that the referee 
be an alumnus and not an undergraduate ; and second, 
that the referee have full power to send any player from 
the field for unfair play, it being understood that unfair 
play did not, in this sense, include off-side play. 



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The annual convention after formally awarding the 
championship to Yale, and retiring Columbia from the 
association for not playing two scheduled championship 
games, revised the rules in order to meet the approval of 
the Harvard Faculty. The most important changes were 
as follows: 1. The referee shall be an alumnus. 2. A player 
can be off-side but twice during a game. 3. The referee 
shall disqualify a man for being three times warned for 
intentionally delaying the game. 

A touchdown was made to count four points instead of 
two, and a safety two points. 

1884 

The rules were still further amended before the besfin- 
ning of this season's play, two important changes made 
being, first, that " A side having touched the ball down 
in their opponents' goal, shall try at goal either by a 
place kick or punt out." This was to prevent the punter 
purposely making a poor kick in hopes of securing another 
touchdown. And, second, " A player shall be offside but 
once during a game," thereby more stringently enforcing 
the point that intentional offside play could not be allowed. 
The Harvard eleven of this year was undoubtedly the 
poorest she ever turned out, being beaten not only by 
Princeton and Yale, but also by Wesleyan, by a score of 
16-0, and by Univ. of Pennsylvania, by a score of 4-0. 
Yale had an easy time against Harvard, winning the 
game by a score of 52 to nothing. The features of the 
game were long kicking on both sides, and good rushing 
and breaking through on the part of the Yale rushers. 
The Yale-Princeton game was played on the Polo 
Grounds on November 28th. Yale won the kick-off and 
soon after the Yale captain made a run of forty yards. 
Yale's center now forced the ball into Princeton's five- 
yard line, and a touchdown, from which a goal was 
kicked, was made just three minutes after the beginning 
of the game. The ball being put in play, Lamar of 
Princeton carried it nearly to Yale's twenty-five yard 



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line, and Princeton, forcing it still nearer, tried for a goal 
but missed. A Princeton man got through and fell on 
the ball, making a touchdown, from which no goal was 
kicked. The game now proceeded by long kicks, on the 
part of Moffat of Princeton and Richards of Yale, and 
by short rushes on both sides. In the second half, Yale's 
goal was once in danger from a goal from the field by 
Moffat, but this was prevented by the Yale rushers break- 
ing through. A good run and a long punt by a Yale 
half-back put the ball in Princeton's territory, where it 
remained during the rest of the game. After a fine run, 
which placed the ball in Princeton's twenty-yard line, the 
Princeton eleven stopped the game to bring forward 
some claims to the referee, which took up so much time 
that it was quite dark when the game began again. For 
the few remaining moments it was impossible to dis- 
tinguish the players, but the ball remained in Princeton's 
territory all the time. The darkness became such that 
the game had to be called ten minutes before time, 
thereby, under the rules, making it "no game," and de- 
priving Yale of the formal championship. 

At Harvard Intercollegiate foot ball was prohibited for 
the ensuing season, and the sentiments of the college being 
found at a mass-meeting to be favorable to the game, a 
scheme of inter-class contests was proposed for the fall 
of 1885. 



1885 

By the action of her Faculty Harvard was prevented 
from playing any Intercollegiate games this year, and the 
association consisted of Princeton, Wesleyan, Pennsyl- 
vania and Yale. At Yale a new team was formed, only 
two old men playing. The only game of real interest 
was the Yale-Princeton game played in New Haven 
November 21st, when, for the first time since 1878, Prince- 
ton defeated Yale. The day was a fine one for foot-ball 
and the game was attended by over five thousand people. 



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The game itself was remarkably close, the Yale team 
excelling in tackling, blocking and kicking, while the 
Princeton team excelled in passing, running and dodg- 
ing. Princeton won the toss, and attempting to rush the 
ball failed to advance five yards or to lose ten } T ards, by 
which the ball went to Yale. The game now goes back 
and forth, with sharp runs and long punts by Watkinson 
of Yale and Lamar of Princeton. Yale keeps the play in 
Princeton's territory and Watkinson three times punts 
over Princeton's line for a touch in goal, and once nar- 
rowly misses a goal from the field. Princeton desper- 
ately works the play toward the middle of the field, but 
Yale's rush-line works like machinery. Two good runs 
now bring the ball in front of Princeton's goal posts and 
Watkinson drops a goal from the field thirty-seven min- 
utes from the start. In the second half, Princeton's play 
improved in snap and vigor. After some play by which 
neither side gain, the ball is slowly but surely carried 
into Yale's territory, and a run brings it to Yale's fifteen 
yard line, where five more yards are given to Princeton 
for Yale's offside play. Lamar forces the ball to the 
five-yard line, but every effort to gain a touchdown is 
resisted, and three downs give the ball to Yale. Now 
comes one of the finest exhibitions of rush-line work ever 
seen on a foot ball field, by which Yale forces the ball 
inch by inch, never losing possession of it, to the middle 
of the field. Here Watkinson makes a long low punt to 
the side, which one of the Princeton half-backs, muffs and 
Lamar gets the ball. Yale's end-rushers are almost upon 
him, but by a clever interference Lamar dodges and has 
a clear field for a beautiful long run and a touchdown 
between the goal-posts. From this a goal is easily kicked, 
and Princeton wins the game by six points to five. But 
five minutes are left to play, during which Beecher 
makes a good run to Princeton's twenty-five yard line. 
The play is carried back and time is called with the ball 
in the center of the field. 

Lamar's run was a marvellous feat worthy of great 
admiration, but it must be acknowledged that it was a 



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remarkable chance, of which he took advantage. The 
duties of judging a game were performed this year by a 
referee alone, in place of the referee and two judges of 
former years. 

1886 

The Yale team played more games than ever before 
during this season. Harvard was admitted to the asso- 
ciation, and showed that she had not been idle during the 
preceding season by displaying better football than she 
had ever played before. As usual the chief interest 
centered in the games between Harvard, Princeton and 
Yale. The Harvard-Princeton game was played first, at 
Princeton, and resulted in a victory for Princeton by a 
score of two goals to nothing. The Yale-Harvard game, 
played in Cambridge November 20, resulted in a victory 
for Yale by a score of twenty-nine points to four. The 
game was opened by a series of rushes, which carried 
the ball under Harvard's goal, where Beecher slipped 
through and made the first touchdown four minutes after 
play began. The ball then worked into Yale's territory 
but was carried back and three or four good runs gave 
Yale a second touchdown. Time, twelve minutes. Score, 
Yale 12, Harvard o. Now comes some long punting, and 
shortly after Yale secures her third touchdown. Time, 
twenty-three minutes. The ball being put in play again, 
four good rushes by the Harvard men secure a touchdown 
against Yale, from which no goal is kicked. Five minutes 
after the second half begins Yale secures another touch- 
down. More long punting and hard rushing take place, 
during which Watkinson of Yale, after two narrow misses, 
finally succeeds in kicking a goal from the field. Poor 
passing, tackling and catching by the Yale team now allows 
the ball to get well into their territory and a long kick 
sends the ball over Yale's line where a touchdown is nar- 
rowly avoided. The game ends with the ball in Har- 
vard's territory. 

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much discussion as to the place and referee, Princeton 
refusing to play except on Princeton grounds and with a 
Princeton referee. Though this was ostensibly fair enough, 
since the game in 1885 was played on the Yale grounds 
and with a Yale referee, yet this much was to be said that 
Princeton in 1885 had chosen the referee and had chosen 
to have the game out of New York, where Yale wanted 
to play. The matter being left to a committee of one 
Harvard, one Princeton and one Yale graduate, it was 
decided that the game be played at Princeton with Mr. 
Tracy Harris, Princeton, '85, as referee. When the Yale 
team appeared on the field, at 2 : 30 p. m., the time agreed 
upon, no referee was present owing to Mr. Harris' refusal 
to act. After an hour of waiting, during which the teams 
retired to the dressing-rooms to escape the fierce rain 
storm that soaked the five thousand people who waited 
expectantly upon the uncovered grand-stands, Mr. Har- 
ris was found, and being prevailed upon to act, started 
the game at 3 : 30 p. m. The condition of the field beg- 
gars description, being soaked with water and covered 
with puddles, one corner especially being a muddy lake, 
where the grass had been removed to make the base 
ball diamond. Princeton won the toss and chose the 
wind, while Yale opened with a couple of short rushes. 
The play coming near Princeton's goal, her back makes 
a long punt, which is only stopped at Yale's thirty-yard 
line. Poor play now loses Yale the ball and Princeton 
advances it to Yale's ten-yard line. Some fine tackling 
is done by the Yale rushers, and a series of fine runs ad- 
vances the ball to within one yard of Princeton's goal 
line, where poor play loses it. The Princeton center 
snaps back and the ball is passed to Savage (back), who 
muffs it and a Yale rusher falls on it. This touchdown is 
not allowed, the referee saying the ball was not properly 
put in play. The ball is kicked out and, alternating back 
and forth, is in Princeton's ten-yard line when time is 
called. 

Owing to. the thick clouds and the heavy rain, which 
fell without intermission, it was evident that darkness 



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would come on early, and that, if there were any delays, 
the game would not be finished. After some short rushes 
by Princeton, a delay was made by a Princeton rusher, 
which lasted eight minutes, although five only are al- 
lowed by the rules. A long kick by a Yale half-back 
sends the ball over Princeton's goal line, and Savage, the 
Princeton captain, missing it, a Yale rusher falls on it, 
and a touchdown is secured. Now followed a perfect 
pandemonium, adherents of both sides rushing on the 
field by hundreds, and a long delay ensued. No goal 
was kicked, and play being resumed, the Princeton cap- 
tain made frequent calls to have the game stopped on ac- 
count of darkness, to which the referee finally consented 
some seventeen minutes before the required time had 
elapsed. The score stood : Yale 4, Princeton o, but 
being an unfinished game, it was technically a draw. 
This accounts for the resolutions adopted at the conven- 
tion of the association, which were as follows : 

Resolved, That this convention has voted that it cannot, 
as a convention, award the official championship for 1886. 

Resolved, That Yale, according to points, should have 
won the championship. 

Thus Yale, although not technically champions, were 
virtually, and in the minds of all disinterested spectators, 
winners of that honor. 

1887 

The most noticeable innovation this year was the ap- 
pointment of an umpire, in addition to the referee, whose 
duty it was to prevent and punish violations of the rules 
of behavior. This scheme, together with what might be 
called stricter attention to business, did away with almost 
all of the " slugging," and placed foot ball higher in 
public estimation than it had ever been before. 

The important games were begun by the defeat of 
Princeton by Harvard at Cambridge by two goals to 
nothing, reversing the score of the previous year. Prince- 
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THE GOAL. 

her strongest rusher, Cowan, who was disqualified for 
a foul tackle. The Yale-Princeton game was played on 
the Polo Grounds, New York, on a day which was hardly 
an improvement on the atrocious weather of the previous 
year. It was in many respects a very satisfactory game, 
being free from delays (by a change in the rules, no delays 
over one minute being allowed), slugging, foul tackling, 
etc. The rush-lines were about equally heavy, with the 
advantange of strength on the side of Yale, her five rush- 
ers in the centre being all rowing men. There was much 
slipping about and fumbling, which the wet and mud 
fully excused. At the start Princeton rushes the ball to 
Yale's twenty-five yard line, but it changes hands and is 
returned by a kick. After considerable play it is in 
Princeton's twenty-five yard line, and shortly after Yale 
has the ball inside the five-yard line but is unable to 



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score. The ball is kicked by Princeton, but three good 
rushes give Yale a touchdown, from which a goal is 
kicked. 

In the second half the Yale rushers force the ball to 
Princeton's five-yard line, and after a little play back and 
forth, the ball is passed back by Princeton, but being 
muffed is fallen on by the Yale center, making Yale's second 
touchdown and goal. The play now surges one way and 
another, and Yale has the ball within two yards of Prince- 
ton's goal line, but failing to advance, forfeits the ball to 
Princeton. Time is called with the ball in the middle of 
the field. Above all the fine playing of the various mem- 
bers of both teams, the rushing of Cowan, of Princeton, 
should be mentioned as phenomenally brilliant. 

The Harvard-Yale game was played on the Polo 
Grounds on Thanksgiving day. As both Harvard and 
Yale had defeated Princeton by the same score, the game 
promised to be of unusual interest, and attracted an audi- 
ence of from twenty to twenty-four thousand people. 
The scene was more brilliant than ever before, some sixty 
or seventy coaches being lined up on two sides of the 
field, decked in red or blue. 

The game began at two o'clock. A few rushes and a 
kick carry the ball to Harvard's twenty-five yard line. 
The ball works back into Yale territory and Porter, of 
Harvard, makes a fine run, passing all but the reliable 
Yale back. Play now drifts back to the middle of the 
field, Harvard being given five yards advance several 
times for the offside play of the Yale rushers in breaking 
through before the ball is snapped. Corbin, the Yale 
center-rush, being unguarded by the Harvard center, 
instead of snapping back, kicks the ball forward a few 
inches, and picking it up runs about twenty yards. A 
few more determined rushes carry the bail to Harvard's 
fifteen-yard line, where Bull, the Yale back, kicks a beauti- 
ful goal from the field. Score, Yale 5, Harvard o. Time, 
30 minutes. After a few unimportant plays the Yale cen- 
ter again kicks and carries the ball from the lining-up, 
and secures a touchdown, from which a goal is kicked, 



FOOT BALL. 



75 



three minutes after the goal from field. Score, Yale n, 
Harvard o. The play being started again, a few Harvard 
rushes and a fine kick bring the ball to Yale's fifteen-yard 
line. Harvard gains a few yards by rushing and being al- 
lowed five yards for Yale's offside play, has the bail down 
within two yards of Yale's line. The Harvard quarter- 
back, however, fumbles and a Yale rusher secures the 
ball. The Yale back punting Harvard secures the ball 
and Sears runs. Time has been called before he passes 
the Yale rushers, and they do not attempt to stop him, as 
he runs over the line, securing a touchdown too late to 
be counted. In the second half Harvard works desper- 
ately and has the ball at Yale's fifteen-yard line. The 
backs exchange kicks, but the Yale backs' kick rebounds 
from a Harvard rusher, and is dropped on by a Yale half- 
back, preventing a touchdown but scoring a safety giving 
two points to Harvard. Harvard encouraged, now works 
the ball to within ten yards of Yale's line, where Porter 
carries it over, making a touchdown and goal. Score, 
Yale ii, Harvard 8. Yale now redoubles her efforts and 
reaches Harvard's five-yard line but loses the ball. Shortly 
after Wurtenburg, the Yale half-back, makes a brilliant 
run of thirty-five yards, securing a touchdown and goal. 
Final score, Yale 17, Harvard 8. The game was un- 
doubtedly the finest ever played in America, and was 
won by Yale's superior team-play, added to her ability to 
play both a kicking and a rushing game, while Harvard 
played almost entirely a rushing game. All the papers 
spoke most highly of the elimination of all disagreeable 
features and of the high position which is now so well 
assured for foot ball in America. 



YALE UNIVERSITY FOOT BALL RECORD. 



Nov. 10, Yale vs. Columbia, 



Touch- 
Goals, downs. 



(twenties) 3-0 



Oct. 25, Yale vs. Rutgers, 
Yale vs. Princeton, 



i»73 



(twenties) 3-1 
0-3 



Nov. 18, Yale vs. Rutgers, 
Nov. 21, Yale vs. Columbia, 
Dec. 5, Yale vs. Columbia, 



1874 



(twenties) 6-0 

5- 1 

6- 1 



Nov. 6, Yale vs. Rutgers, 

Nov. 13, Yale vs. Harvard, 

Nov. 16, Yale vs. Wesleyan, 

Dec. 4, Yale vs. Columbia, 



1875 



(twenties) 

(fifteens) 

(twenties) 



4-1 
0-4 
6-0 
2-3 



1876 

Nov. 18, Yale vs. Harvard, .... (elevens) 1-0 

Nov. 30, Yale vs. Princeton, . . . 2-0 

Dec. 9, Yale vs. Columbia, . . . 2-0 5-1 

1877 

Nov. 3, Yale vs. Tufts, . . . (elevens) 1-0 4-0 

Nov. 21, Yale vs. Trinity 7-° 11-0 

Nov. 24, Yale vs. Stevens Institute, . 13-0 I 7~o 

Dec. 8, Yale vs. Princeton, . . . (fifteens) Draw. (2-0) 



1878 

Nov. 2, Yale vs. Amherst, . . . (fifteens) 2-0 

Nov. 9, Yale vs. Trinity, .... 2-0 

Nov. 13, Yale vs. Trinity, ... 3 -0 

Nov. 23, Yale vs. Harvard, .... 1-0 

Nov. 28, Yale vs. Princeton, . . . o -1 



FOOT BALL. 



77 



1879 

Goals. Touchdowns. Safeties. 



Nov. 1, Yale vs. Univ. of Penn., 


(fifteens) 




3-0 




5-0 




Nov. 8, Yale vs. Harvard, 












2-4 


Nov. 15, Yale vs. Rutgers, 






5-0 




3-0 




Nov. 22, Yale vs. Columbia, 






2-0 




3-o 





Nov. 27, Yale vs. Princeton, 












2 ~5 




1880 












Nov. 10, Yale vs. Columbia, 


(elevens) 




13-0 




5-o 





Nov. 13, Yale vs. Brown, 






8-0 




5-o 


1-11 


Nov. 17, Yale vs. Univ. of Penn., 






8-0 




1-0 





Nov. 20, Yale vs. Harvard, 






1-0 




1-0 


2-9 


Nov. 25, Yale vs. Princeton, 












5-i 1 




1881 












Oct. 29, Yale vs. Amherst, 


(elevens) 




2-0 




4-0 





XT _ TT 1 TT ■ £ TVT , -,"U*^ 

Nov. 2, Yale vs. Univ. of Micnig 


an, ." 




2-0 








Nov. 5, Yale vs. Amherst, 






4-0 




8-0 




Nov. 12, Yale vs. Harvard, 












0-4 


Nov. 16, Yale vs. Columbia, 






1-0 








Nov. 24, Yale vs. Princeton, 

















Oct. 7, Yale vs. Wesleyan, 


1882 
(elevens) 




9-0 








Oct. 21, Yale vs. Rutgers, 






9-0 




3-o 


0-3 


Oct. 28, Yale vs. Rutgers, 






5-0 








Nov. 4, Yale vs. Inst. Technology, 




6-0 




2-0 





Nov. 8, Yale vs. Amherst, 






9-0 




1-0 





Nov. 18, Yale vs. Columbia, 






11-0 




5-0 





Nov. 25, Yale vs. Harvard, 






1-0 




3-0 


0-2 


Nov. 30, Yale vs. Princeton, 






2-1 






1-1 




1883 

Goals Goals from Touch- 








from field. Touchd'ns. downs. 


Safeties. 


Points. 


Sept. 26, Yale vs. Wesleyan, 


3-0 6-0 


3- 


-0 


o-3 


60-O 


Sept. 29, Yale vs. Wesleyan, 


4-0 1 0-0 


3" 


-0 


0-4 


90-0 


Oct. 7, Yale vs. Stevens Institute, 1-0 5- 


-O 


5- 


-0 


0-3 


48-O 


Nov. 6, Yale vs. Rutgers, 


5-o 9- 


-O 


6- 


-0 


0-7 


98-O 


Nov. 17, Yale vs. Columbia, 


4-0 II- 


-0 


2- 


-0 


0-3 


93-0 


Nov. 21, Yale vs. Univ. of Michigan, 2-0 8- 


-0 


2- 


-0 


0-2 


64-O 


Nov. 24, Yale vs. Princeton, 




-O 








6-0 


Nov. 29, Yale vs. Harvard, 


2-0 2- 


-O 


0-1 


0-1 


23-2 



78 



FOOT BALL. 



1884 





Goals Goals from 
from field. Touchd'ns 


Touch- 
downs. 


Safeties. 


Points. 


Oct. 1, Yale vs. Wesleyan, 


3-0 


1-0 


2—0 


O — I 


31-O 


Oct. 11, Yale vs. Stevens Institute, 2-0 


12-0 


3-D 


0-1 


96-O 


Oct. 18, Yale vs. Wesleyan, 


5-0 


3-o 


5-o 




63-O 


Oct. 22, Yale vs. Rutgers, 




II-I 


2-1 


0-1 


76-IO 


Oct. 25, Yale vs. Dartmouth, 


1-0 


I4-0 


4-0 


0-4 


1 1 3-0 


Nov. 5, Yale vs. Wesleyan, 




5-o 


3-o 


0-2 


46-O 


Nov. 22, Yale vs. Harvard, 




6-0 


4-0 





52-0 


Nov. 28, Yale vs. Princeton, 




1-0 


0-1 





6-4 




1885 

Goals Goals from Touch- 
from field. Touchd'ns. downs. 


Safeties. 


Points. 


Oct. 10, Yale vs. Stevens Institute, 3-0 


4-0 


4-0 




c c — n 
DO u 


Oct. 14, Yale vs. Wesleyan, 




1-0 


3-0 





18-0 


Oct. 28, Yale vs. Wesleyan, 


5-0 


4-0 


4-0 


0-3 


71-0 


Oct. 31, Yale vs. Inst. Technology, 3-0 


4-0 


2-0 


0-2 


5I-0 


Nov. 14, Yale vs. Univ. of Penn., 3-1 


1-0 


7-0 


0-2 


53-5 


Nov. 21, Yale vs. Princeton, 


1-0 


0-1 







5-6 


Nov. 25, Yale vs. Wesleyan, 


3-o 
1886 


7-o 


1-0 





61-0 




Goals Goals from 
from field. Touchd'ns. 


Touch- 
downs. 


Safeties. 


Points. 


Oct. 6, Yale vs. Wesleyan, 


1-0 


8-0 


5-0 


O-I 


75-0 


Oct. 9, Yale vs. Wesleyan, 




9-0 


2-0 




62— 


Oct. 16, Yale vs. Inst. Technology, 


13-0 


3-o 


0-3 


96-O 


Oct. 20, Yale vs. Stevens Institute, 2-0 


5-o 


3-o 


0-1 


54-0 


Oct. 23, Yale vs. Williams, 




8-0 


6-0 


0-2 


76-O 


Oct. 30, Yale vs. Wesleyan, 




22-0 


1-0 





I36-O 


Nov. 13, Yale vs. Univ. of Penn., 


1-0 


7-o 


7-o 





75-0 


Nov. 20, Yale vs. Harvard, 


I-O 


4-0 


0-1 





29-4 


Nov. 25, Yale vs. Princeton, 






1-0 





4-0 




1887 

Goals Goals from 
from field. Touchd'ns. 


Touch- 
downs. 


Safeties. 


Points. 


Oct. 6, Yale vs. Wesleyan, 




3-o 


4-0 


0-2 


38-O 


Oct. 15, Yale vs. Wesleyan, 




15-0 


3-0 


0-2 


106-0 


Oct. 22, Yale vs Williams, 




9-0 


5-0 




74-0 


Oct. 29, Yale vs. Univ. of Penn., 




6-0 


3-o 


O-I 


50-0 


Nov. 5, Yale vs. Rutgers, 




12-0 




O-I 


74-o 


Nov. 12, Yale vs. Wesleyan, 




1 0-0 


3-1 


O-I 


74-4 


Nov. 19, Yale vs. Princeton, 




2-0 






12-0 


Nov. 24, Yale vs. Harvard, 


I-O 


2-1 




I-O 


17-8 



Summary — Out of 86 games played, Yale has won 81 including 9 from 
Harvard and 6 from Princeton, and has lost 5, of which Princeton has won 
3, Harvard 1, and Columbia 1. 



FOOT BALL CHAMPIONSHIPS, 1876-1887. 



Year. 


Contestants. 


Winner. 


Remarks. 


1876 


Yale. 

Princeton. 

Harvard. 

Columbia. 


Yale. 


Yale not in Association, but de- 
feated every member of it. 


1877 


Yale. 

Princeton. 


Not awarded. 


Yale not in Association. Yale made 
two touchdowns to Princeton's 
nothing. This by the rules a 
draw game. 


1878 


Yale. 

Princeton. 
Harvard. 


Princeton. 


Yale defeated Harvard this year by 
one goal to nothing. 


1879 


Yale. 

Princeton. 

Harvard. 

Columbia. 


Not awarded, i Yale's games with Princeton, and 
Harvard by the rules draw games. 
Princeton, 5 safeties ; Yale, 2. 
Harvard, 4 safeties ; Yale, 2. 


1880 


Yale. 
Princeton. 
Harvard. 
Columbia. 


Not awarded. 


Yale defeated Harvard by one goal 
and one touchdown to nothing. 
Draw game with Princeton. 


1881 


Yale. 

Princeton. 

Harvard. 

Columbia. 


Yale. 


Yale defeated Harvard by no safe- 
ties to four, and tied Princeton, 
neither scoring, except Prince- 
ton made touch-in goals. 


1882 


Yale. 
Princeton. 
Harvard. 
Columbia. 


Yale. 


Yale defeated Harvard by a goal 
and three touchdowns to nothing, 
and Princeton by two goals to one. 
Harvard defeated Princeton. 


1883 


Yale. 
Princeton. 
Harvard. 
Columbia. 


Yale. 


Yale rush line averaged 185 lbs. 


1884 


Yale. 

Princeton. 

Harvard. 

Wesleyan. 


Not awarded. 


Harvard beaten by four colleges 
this year. Yale defeated Prince- 
ton 6-4 in an unfinished game. 


1885 


Yale. 
Princeton. 
Wesleyan. 
Univ. of Penn. 




Princeton. 


Harvard kept out of football by her 
Faculty. Princeton defeated Yale 
by 6 to 5. 


1886 


Yale. 

Princeton. 
Harvard. 
Wesleyan. 
Univ. of Penn. 


Not awarded. 


Yale defeated Princeton 4-0 in an 

unfinished game. 
Princeton, 12 ; Harvard, 0. 


18S7 


Yale. 

Princeton. 
Harvard. 
Wesleyan. 
Univ. of Penn. 


Yale. 


Harvard defeated Princeton 12-0. 
Audience of about 20,000 at Yale- 
Harvard game. 



Totals — Yale, 5 ; Princeton, 2 ; not awarded, 5. 



COMPARATIVE SCORES OF YALE AND HER 
OPPONENTS. 



Yale. Opponents. 



Goals 
from field. 


Touch- 
Goals, downs. Safeties. Points. 


Goals Touch- 
from field. Goals, downs. Safeties. Pts. 


1872 
187^ 




3 








— A 








/ 3 
1874 




j 
17 








4- 

— 2 








1875 




12 








— 8 


2 






1876 




5 


5 








1 






1877 
1878 




21 

8 


34 














1879 




10 


11 


4 








9 




1880 




30 


12 


8 








3i 




1881 




9 


12 










4 




1882 




52 


15 


1 




— 1 


1 


6 




1883 


21 


52 


21 




482 




1 


23 


2 


1884 


II 


53 


23 




483 


— 1 


2 


9 


14 


1885 


18 


21 


21 




3H 


1 1 




7 


11 


1S86 


5 


76 


28 




607 






7 


4 


1887 


1 


59 


18 


1 


445 


— 1 


1 


7 


12 


Totals, 


56 


43i 


200 


14 


2331 


1 19 


9 


103 


43 



YALE UNIVERSITY FOOT BALL MEN. 

1872 

W. F. McCook, C. S. Hemingway, E. S. Miller, S. L. Boyce, L. W. Irwin, 
J. P. Peters, H. A. Strong, '73 ; W. S. Halstead, R. H. Piatt, P. A. Porter, 
R. W. Kelley, J. L. Scudder, J. A. R. Dunning, H. Scudder, H. D. Bristol, 
T. T. Sherman, '74 ; H. A. Oaks, C. H. Avery, W. H. Hotchkiss, '75 ; R. D. 
A. Parrott, '74 S. (|D. S. Schaff, '73, acting captain.) 

1873 

H. C. Deming, '72 ; J. P. Peters, '73 ; fW. S. Halstead, H. D. Bristol, J. L. 
Scudder, T. T. Sherman, G. M. Gunn, C. D. Waterman, E. D. Robbins, W. 
E. D. Stokes, L. Melick, W. O. Henderson, C. E. Humphrey, G. V. Bush- 
nell, J. A. R. Dunning, P. A. Porter, '74 ; W. H. Hotchkiss, F. L. Grinnell, 
H. J. McBirney, '75 ; E. V. Baker, '77. 

f Indicates the Captain. 



FOOT BALL. 



Si 



1874 

H. C. Deming, '72 ; J. P. Peters, '73 ; H. D. Bristol, '74 ; fH. J. McBirney, 
C. H. Avery, C. W. Cochran, W. S. Fulton, F. L. Grinnell, C. Maxwell, F. 
T. McClintock, '75 ; W. Arnold, A. H. Ely, M. H. Phelps, D. Trumbull, F. 
W. Vaille, W. J. Wakeman, F. N. Wright, '76 ; E. V. Baker, '77 ; W. L. R. 
Wurts, '78 ; W. C. Hall, '75 S. 

1875 

J. P. Peters, '73; |W. Arnold, W. J. Wakeman, D. Trumbull, C. Johnston, 
F. N. Wright, M. H. Phelps, F. W. Vaille, '76 ; E. V. Baker, G. T. Elliot, '77 ; 
W. L. R. Wurts, E. W. Smith, '78 ; O. D. Thompson, G. D. Munson, '79 ; D. 
R. Alden, '76 S.; [E. D. Robbins, G. V. Bushnell, '74 ; B. B. Seelye, '76 ; F. 
W. Davis, '77 ; T. E. Rochfort, '79, on the twenty, not on the fifteen^ 

1876 

Forwards — G. H. Clark, '80 ; W. H. Taylor, '78 ; C. C. Camp, '77 ; W. V. 
Downer, '78; N. U. Walker, '77. Half 'backs— W '. C. Camp, '80; W. D. 
Hatch, '79 ; O. D. Thompson, '79. Backs— W. L. R. Wurts, '78 ; W. T. Big- 
elow, '77 ; fE. V. Baker, '77. 

1877 

Rushers— W. V. Downer, '78 ; B. B. Lamb, '81 ; J. S. Harding, '80; W. L. 
R. Wurts, '78. Halfbacks— -W '. C. Camp, '80 ; G. H. Clark, '80 ; O. D. Thomp- 
son, '79 ; F. W. Brown, '78 S. Backs— W. J. Wakeman, M. S.; D. Trumbull, 
L. S.; fE. V. Baker, L. S. 

1878 

Forwards—}. V. Farwell, '79 ; L. K. Hull, '82 ; H. Ives, '81 ; J. S. Harding, 
'80; B. B. Lamb, '81 ; J. Moorhead, '79 S.; F. M. Eaton, '82. Halfbacks— 
F. W. Brown, P. G.; W. A. Peters, '80; O. D. Thompson, '79; R. W. Wat- 
son, '81 S.; fW. C. Camp, '80. Backs— W '. J. Wakeman, M. S.; W. K. Nixon, 
'81 ; W. I. Badger, '82. 

1879 

Forwards — F. M. Eaton, '82; J. S. Harding, '80; L. K. Hull, '82; B. B. 
Lamb, '81 ; H. H. Knapp, '82 ; J. Moorhead, '79 S.; F. Remington, C. S. Beck, 
'83. Halfbacks — W. I. Badger, '82 ; fW. C. Camp, '80, G. H. Clark, '8o ; W. 
A. Peters, '80; R. W. Watson, '81 S. Backs— W. K. Nixon, '81 ; C. W. 
Lyman, '82. 

1880 

Rushers — P. C. Fuller, *8i ; C. S. Beck, '83 ; L. K. Hull, '83 ; J.S.Harding, 
'8o; B. B. Lamb, '81; C. B. Storrs, '82; F. M. Eaton, '82. Quarterback— 
W. I. Badger, '82. Halfbacks— fR. W. Watson, '81 S.; W. C. Camp, '80. 
Back — B. W. Bacon, '8i. 

6 



82 



FOOT BALL. 



1881 

Rushers — H. H. Knapp, '82 ; A. L. Farwell, '84 ; R. Tompkins, '84 ; L. K. 
Hull, '83 ; C. B. Storrs, fF. M. Eaton, '82 ; C. S. Beck, '83. Quarterback— 
W. I. Badger, '82. Halfbacks — E. L. Richards, Jr., '85 ; W. C. Camp, M. S. 
Back — B. W. Bacon, T. S. 

1882 

Rushers — L. K. Hull, '83 ; H. H. Knapp, L. S.; fR. Tompkins, '84; A. L. 
Farwell, '84 ; F. G. Peters, '86 ; W. H. Hyndman, '84 ; C. S. Beck, '83. 
Quarterback— H. B. Twombly, '84. Halfbacks— E. L. Richards, Jr., '85 ; W. 
Terry, '85. Back — B. W. Bacon, T. S. 

1883 

Rushers— fR. Tompkins, '84; L. K. Hull, L. S.; W. H. Hyndman, '84; S. 
R. Bertron, '85 ; F. G. Peters, '86 ; H. H. Knapp, L. S.; A. L. Farwell, '84. 
Quarterback — H. B. Twombly, '84. Halfbacks— E. L. Richards, Jr., '85 ; W. 
Terry, '85. Back — B. W. Bacon, T. S. 

1884 

Rushers— W. N. Goodwin, '88 ; L. F. Robinson, '85 ; A. B. Coxe, '87 ; F. 
G. Peters, '86 ; H. R. Flanders, '85 ; S. R. Bertron, '85 ; F. W. Wallace, '88. 
Quarterback— -T. L. Bayne, '87. Halfbacks—^. L. Richards, Jr., '85 ; W. 
Terry, '85. Back — M. H. Marlin, '86 S. 

1885 

Rushers— F. W. Wallace, '88 ; G. R. Carter, '88 S.; A. C. Lux, '88 ; fF. G. 
Peters, '86 ; G. W. Woodruff, '89 ; H. L. Hamlin, '87 S.; R. N. Corwin, '87 ; 
Quarterback — H. Beecher, '88. Halfbacks — G. A. Watkinson, '89; W. T. 
Bull, '88 S. Back — E. L. Burke, '87. 

1886 

Rushers— fR. N. Corwin, '87 ; G. R. Carter, '88 S.; G. W. Woodruff, '89; 
W. H. Corbin, '89 ; T. W. Buchanan, '89 ; C. O. Gill, '89 ; F. W. Wallace, 
'88. Quarterback — H. Beecher, '88. Halfbacks — G. A. Watkinson, '89 ; S. B. 
Morison, '90. Back—W. T. Bull, '88 S. 

1887 

Rushers — F. W. Wallace, '89 ; C. O. Gill, '89 ; G. R. Carter, '88 S.; W. H. 
Corbin, '89 ; G. W. Woodruff, '89 ; S. M. Cross, '88 ; F. C. Pratt, '88 S. 
Quarterback— fH. Beecher, '88. Halfbacks— W. P. Graves, '91 ; W. C. Wur- 
tenburg, '89 S. Back—W. T. Bull, '88 S. 

Note. — Of these players, 57 played one year, 29 two years, 12 three years, 
13 four years, 1 five years and 2 six years. The two who played six years 
were Camp, '80, and Hull, '83, and the one who played five years, Baker, '77. 



FOOT BALL. 83 



FRESHMAN INTERCOLLEGIATE FOOT BALL 
RECORD. 



Date. 


Place. 


Contestants. 


Wiiiner. 


Score. 


1S76. 
Dec. 2. 


Boston. 


Yale, '80. 
Harvard, '80. 


Harvard, '80. 


3 goals to 0. 


1877. 
Nov. 17. 


New Haven. 


Yale, '81. 
Harvard, '81. 


Harvard, '81. 


1 goal to 0. 


1877. 
Dec. 11. 


Boston. 


Yale, '81. 
Harvard, '81. 


Harvard, '81. 


1 touchdown to 0. 


1879. 
Nov. 22. 


New Haven. 


Yale, '83. 
Harvard, '83. 


Yale, '83. 


2 touchdowns to 0. 


1879- 
Nov. 29. 


Cambridge. 


Yale, '83. 
Harvard, '83. 


Yale, '83. 


1 goal 3 touch, to 0. 


1880. 
Nov. 17. 


Springfield. 


Yale, '84. 
Harvard, '84. 


Yale, '84. 


3 goals 1 touch, to 0. 


1881. 
Nov. 12. 


Springfield. 


Yale, '85. 
Amherst, '85. 


Yale, '85. 


Amherst, 4 safeties. 


1881. 
Nov. 26. 


Boston. 


Yale, '85. 
Harvard, '85. 


Yale, '85. 


2 goals 1 touch, to 0. 


18S2. 
Nov. 11. 


Middletown. 


Yale, '86. 
Wesleyan, '85. 


Wesleyan, '85. 


1 touchdown to 0. 


I oo2. 

Dec. 2. 


Cambridge. 


1 ate, 00. 
Harvard, '86. 


Tie-game. 


6-6 


1883. 
Nov. 29. 


Cambridge. 


Yale, '87. 
Harvard, '87. 


Tie-game. 


5-5 


1884. 
Oct. 22. 


Hartford. 


Yale, '88. 
Amherst, '88. 


Yale, '88. 


58-0 


1884. 
Nov. 5. 


New Haven. 


Yale, '88. 
Wesleyan, '88. 


Yale, '88. 


8-2 


1886. 
Nov. 27. 


Cambridge. 


Yale, '90. 
Harvard, '90. 


Harvard, '90. 


22-4 


1887. 
Nov. 26. 


New Haven. 


Yale, '91. 
Harvard, '91. 


Harvard, '91. 


6-2 



Totals — Harvard Freshmen, 5 ; Yale Freshmen, 4. 



Note. — In this Summary only Yale-Harvard Freshman games are counted. 



Base Ball— 18 59-1888. 



Base ball was first played at Yale in 1859, at which 
time it was in a very crude state of development. For 
six years after its introduction the interest in the game 
was fluctuating — the sport being relinquished entirely 
in i860— but in the fall of '65 the Y. U. B. B. C. was 
organized, with J. Coffin, '68, as President. A Univer- 
sity nine was picked from the class nines to meet a 
challenge from the Agallian Club of Wesleyan University. 

According to contemporary accounts ''the Yale nine 
never before having played together, improved vastly as 
the game progressed, and toward the close played very 
brilliantly. Their fielding was excellent, some very fine 
fly-catches being made, and home runs were secured by 
three men." 

The score stood Yale 39 runs, Wesleyan 13, and the 
game lasted 3 hours, 20 minutes. Two more games were 
played by the Yale nine during the fall, both with the 
Waterbury Club, the scores of which were, respectively, 
Yale 35, Waterbury 30, and Yale 52, Waterbury 30. 

1866 

In the spring of this year three games were played, two 
with the Charter Oaks, of Hartford, and one with the 
Waterbury's, all being defeats for Yale. In the fall the 
nine was reorganized, and a committee of four, including 
J. Coffin, the captain, appointed to select players. In the 
first game Yale defeated Waterbury 52 to 41, and later 
won an easy victory over Bridgeport by 59 to 10. The 
third and last game in the fall Yale lost to Waterbury. 



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1867 

But two games were played in the spring of this year, 
against the Liberty Club of Norwalk, and the Riversides 
of Norwich, both Yale victories. In the fall Yale had for 
the first time a really good nine, and one which, being 
free from class distinctions had the sympathy of the entire 
college. 

In the first game of the season against the Waterburys, 
Hooker's pitching and quick throwing to bases were very 
effective, while the fielding and team play were excellent. 
Yale's game with Columbia was an easy victory, the 
latter not being in good trim. Individual fine plays were 
made on both sides, and Columbia's fielding throughout 
was fine, her batting being her weak point. 

Another victory over the Waterburys completed the 
season's play. 

1868 

The opening game this spring was played with the 
Unions of Morrisania, the champions of the country. 
Over 1200 people witnessed the game, which was close 
and exciting. At the end of the fifth inning Yale stood 
8 runs to Unions 4, and at the end of the ninth inning the 
game was a tie. Union won finally by 16 to 14. Of the 
Yale players, McCutchen, short stop, Hooker, pitcher, 
and Condict, catcher, received many compliments. In 
the game with the Lowell Club, of Boston, Selden won a 
prize bat valued at $15, offered for the best score made 
by a Yale man, by making twelve bases and but one out. 

On June 25th, Yale played Princeton for the first time. 
The playing on both sides was poor, the Princeton nine 
especially, having played Harvard and Williams on the 
two preceding days, being worn out. The score was 
Yale 30, Princeton 13. 

The first Yale-Harvard game was played July 25th, and 
resulted in a victory for Harvard by 25 runs to 17. The 
Yale nine disappointed its friends and played with no 



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spirit. In the fall the nine played four games, winning 
them all, against the Libertys of Norwalk, the Eckfords 
of Brooklyn, and the Bridgeports. The individual play- 
ers were mentioned as follows : " Deming made five beau- 
tiful fly-catches. Richards shone well behind the bat, and 
Hooker pitched as effectively as ever." 

1869 

The opening game with the champion Mutuals of New 
York, was witnessed by 1500 people, and was an interest- 
ing contest. The score was 18 to 16 against Yale. On 
June 28th, the Williams nine announced on the posters as 
" at present the champion nine of American Colleges," 
visited New Haven, and were beaten 26 to 8. 

The second annual Yale-Harvard game was played in 
Brooklyn, and resulted in a fine victory for Harvard. 
The Yale fielding was very poor and the pitching was not 
at all troublesome, so that Harvard ran up 41 runs to 
Yale's 24. Harvard excelled in base-running, every 
player that reached first, invariably making second on the 
first or second ball pitched. The play of Bush, the Har- 
vard captain, was highly commended, and his command 
of his nine was admirable. The game lasted 3 hrs. 20 min. 

In the fall only one game was played (and lost) by a 
nine made up with six new players. 

1870 

The spring season was opened by a game with the Ath- 
letics, of Philadelphia, who by powerful batting made 29 
runs to 12. After some practice games with professional 
clubs, the third Yale-Harvard game was played on the 
4th of July. At the sixth inning the score was a tie, with 
nineteen runs for each. Harvard won however, 24 to 22. 
Two days later Yale suffered a disastrous defeat at the 
hands of Princeton, losing the game by 49 to 12. In the 
fall five games were played with neighboring clubs. 



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187I 

In the first games of the season the Yale pitcher, Strong, 
showed signs of great promise, although in the game with 
the Haymakers, of Troy, he was batted for 46 bases. 
After eight practice games the nine met Harvard. By 
the same mismanagement as in the previous year, Yale 
ventured to risk a Harvard game when her players were 
demoralized by annual examinations. Yale excelled at 
the bat, but her poor fielding lost the game. The score 
stood Harvard 22, Yale 19. 

In the fall four games were played, of which Yale lost 
one. In the game with the Osceolas, of Stratford, the 
Yale fielding was nearly perfect, but one error being 
made. 



1872 

In the spring four practice games were played before 
the nine met Harvard. Early in the spring Yale made 
an informal proposition to Harvard to substitute for the 
annual game a series of games, the best two in three. To 
this Harvard agreed and at the same time Yale consented 
to throw open the contest to members of all departments 
at each University. 

The first game played in New Haven Harvard won 
easily by 32 to 13. The second game, in Boston, stood at 
the end of the sixth inning Yale 9, Harvard 6, but here 
Harvard by good batting assisted by Yale errors made 
seven runs. In the next inning Yale made eight runs, so 
that at the beginning of the ninth inning the score stood 
Yale 17, Harvard 15. In the ninth inning Harvard made 
four runs and blanked Yale, winning the game. It was 
claimed that the umpire in the last inning favored Har- 
vard by giving them bases on called balls (three being 
sufficient) and was unduly strict with the Yale batters. 

During the fall no University games were played, class 
games absorbing the attention of the College. 



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1873 

When the spring opened there was much enthusiasm 
over base ball and plenty of good material in College, 
the chief need of the Yale nine being, as it always had 
been, greater coolness at critical points, which faithful 
practice and more frequent games could alone give. 

A series, best two in three, was played with Princeton 
this year as well as Harvard. Besides five games with 
these two Colleges, six games were played with pro- 
fessionals. 

The first College game was played at Princeton May 
10. The first six innings were marked by sharp fielding, 
the score being Yale 2, Princeton 1. Princeton batted 
weakly throughout, making in all but two runs while 
Yale ran up her score to nine. 

The second game with Princeton in New Haven was 
won by Princeton 10 to 9. The Yale catcher was hurt in 
the first inning and a change battery put in. 

In the first Harvard game of the season Yale was 
defeated by one run. At the end of the sixth inning 
Harvard had a lead of six runs which was ineffectually 
reduced by hard work. Much nervousness was evinced 
by both nines, and errors in the field were numerous. 

In the next Harvard game at Cambridge Yale was 
completely outplayed, making but three base hits off 
Hooper, while the Yale fielding was so poor that 29 runs 
were made on 18 base hits. The final score stood 29 to 5. 

With this disastrous game ended the chain of eight 
defeats which Yale experienced from Harvard. Up to 
the end of '73 there can be no doubt that the Harvard 
nines were uniformly better than the Yale nines. Har- 
vard's advantage lay in the number of excellent clubs in 
and near Boston, from whom she learned a scientific 
knowledge of the game. This is shown by her uniform 
steadiness and team work, a feature noticeably absent 
from Yale nines. 

In the fall one practice game was played and then Yale 
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series begun in the spring on the ground that her nine 
was not organized. Yale offered, however, to play a 
practice game at Princeton. The Yale pitcher was 
heavily batted and being poorly supported, the game 
went to Princeton 18 to 4. This game had a depressing 
effect on the base ball interests in the spring. 



1874 

The nine played eighteen games during the spring 
season, of which two games each were played with Har- 
vard and Princeton. After it had been decided to have 
the College regatta at Saratoga, Yale proposed that the 
Yale-Harvard games should be played at Saratoga dur- 
ing race-week instead of in Cambridge and New Haven. 
The advantages of this change being that both nines 
would be able to recover from the effects of the annual ex- 
aminations. From the end of the term till the middle of 
July, when the games with Harvard were to be played, 
the nine made a practice tour during which they played 
the Hartfords, Baltimores, Mutuals, etc., and defeated 
Princeton easily in two games. The scores in these were 
16 to 1 and 1 1 to 3. * 

The games with Harvard were played July 14 and the 
morning of July 15. There was much enthusiasm dis- 
played, the audience being composed mostly of students. 
Both games were very creditable, the fielding being 
uniformly good. The brilliant pitching of Avery un- 
doubtedly won Yale the games. The scores were Yale 4, 
Harvard o and Yale 7, Harvard 4, 

Yale won no games against professional clubs this year 
which was sufficiently accounted for by the rapid develop- 
ment of the game among professionals. 

In the fall three games were played by a rather dis- 
organized nine against neighboring clubs. 



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1875 

Yale played fourteen games this season. The first 
championship game was with Princeton, and was an easy 
victory for Yale, 14 to 4. The Yale nine batted heavily 
and their battery work was effective. So easily was this 
game won that a most deplorable feeling of over-confi- 
dence possessed both the nine and the students, and with 
the usual result. The Yale nine was somewhat crippled 
in the loss of a catcher. Errors gave Princeton a run, 
Yale batted weakly and Princeton fielded finely. The 
result was a defeat by 3 runs to o. 

In the game with Amherst a change battery was put in, 
and after two innings the score stood Amherst 3, Yale o. 
At this point Avery came in to pitch, with such effect 
that no Amherst man reached first base, and of twenty- 
one outs, fourteen men were struck out. The final score 
stood Yale 5, Amherst 3. 

The Yale nine, although somewhat crippled by the loss 
of the second baseman, and the lame shoulder of the 
pitcher, Avery, won a victory over Harvard by 9 to 4. 
In the second game Avery was unable to play, despite 
which Yale made 11 runs to Harvard's 4. Great praise 
was due to Mr. Avery, who had pitched for three years 
and captained in '75, for his individual work, and organ- 
izing ability, by which he broke the chain of Harvard's 
eight victories and defeated her in four games. 

1876 

Twenty one games were played during the spring. 
The first game against Princeton was remarkable for the 
changes of fortune during its progress. At the seventh 
inning the score stood Yale 5, Princeton o. During the 
eighth the score was five runs all, and then Yale seven to 
five. In the ninth Princeton made four runs so that Yale 
began her ninth inning with 9 to 7 against her. The first 
striker went out on an easy grounder. The next six 
strikers, however, made base hits, the final score being 
12 to 9 in favor of Yale. 



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The thirteenth Yale-Harvard game was played in Cam- 
bridge, and was lost by a few costly errors and weak 
batting. The score 4 to 3 indicates the closeness of the 
game. The impartial applause bestowed by the audience 
was much appreciated by the Yale nine. 

The second game with Princeton was a walkover, 1 3 to 3. 

The second game of the series with Harvard was played 
in New Haven, and was won by Yale, 7 to 6. Carter's 
pitching for Yale was very puzzling, eleven men being 
struck out. 

The deciding game was played in Hartford, the day after 
the boat-race. In the third inning Harvard secured three 
runs which gave her a winning lead. Yale scored only 
in the seventh inning. The final score was Harvard 5, 
Yale 1. The pitching for both nines was very effective. 

1877 

The nine played 23 games during the spring. In the 
series of games with Amherst Yale won two out of three, 
the scores being 9 to 4, 4 to 5 and 24 to 8. In the series 
with Princeton Yale won two straight games by 6 to 4 
and 8 to o. Princeton this year gave up rowing and 
devoted herself to foot ball and base ball. 

The first game with Harvard was remarkable in that 
the Harvard nine went to the bat only twenty-seven 
times, each player going out in the regular order of strik- 
ing. Not a single base hit was made off Carter, while 
seven were made off Ernst. Harvard was outfielded and 
outbatted. The final score was Yale 5, Harvard o. 
Struck out, Yale 1, Harvard 1 ; strikes called, Yale 19, 
Harvard 16; struck at and missed, Yale 9, Harvard/; 
Bases called on Carter 21, on Ernst 14. 

The first game with Trinity proved more interesting 
than was expected, the score being the same as in the 
game with Harvard. Only one base hit was made off 
Carter. The second game with Trinity was a walkover 
of 17 to 1. 



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The second game played on poor grounds at Cam- 
bridge (Jarvis Field was undergoing repairs), was an 
easy victory for Harvard by 10 to i. The Yale nine 
were outplayed and thoroughly demoralized. 

The deciding game with Harvard was played in Hart- 
ford. It was close and exciting, the score being at the 
beginning of the eighth inning 3 to 2 in favor of Harvard. 
In this inning, however, Harvard confirmed her lead by 
making two more runs, leaving the final score 5 to 2. 
The playing of both nines was good. Harvard was 
fortunate in bunching hits. In the fall two practice 
games were played with Hartford and Waterbury ama- 
teurs. 

1878 

The spring season was opened by the defeat of Trinity 
6 to o, in a game in which Yale made no base hits. Yale 
won the series against Princeton, losing the first game 
4 to 5 and winning the other two 10 to 2 and 10 to 3. In 
the first game the Yale fielding was wretched as the 
record of 24 errors against 8 will show. It is only fair to 
state that of these 24, 10 were charged to Carter, and 
were due to the great strictness of the umpire in calling 
balls. The series with Harvard this year was one of five 
games, instead of as formerly three. The first game, 
played at Hamilton Park, was won by Yale 4 to 3. The 
Yale nine were far from confident of victory, owing to 
the poor batting they had been doing, but were deter- 
mined to do their best. The two nines were quite even, 
at any rate much more so than five weeks later when 
Harvard was superior in every point of comparison. 

The second game with Trinity resulted disastrously for 
her in the score of 25 to o. 

The second game of the Harvard series was won by 
Yale 11 to 5, and was the first base ball game ever won 
by Yale on Harvard grounds. The game, as the Harvard 
Crimson said, was won by superior batting. The game 
against Amherst, won by 10 to o, was played without an 



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error by the Yale nine, and only one Amherst man 
reached first base. The defeat of Harvard on her own 
grounds caused such over-confidence that Yale lost three 
straight games to Harvard, played in New Haven (3 to 
11), in Boston (2 to 9), and in Hartford (3 to 16). As 
the " Yale Book " says, " It is a notable fact that College 
nines do best when least is expected of them. It is confi- 
dence unfortified by hard work and careful training that 
most surely issues in defeat." 



1879 

The first College game of the year was an easy victory 
over Princeton. Warned by the experience of '78, the 
Yale News besought the nine not to indulge in over-confi- 
dence or laxity of training, even though Harvard had 
just been badly defeated by Brown. 

In the first game with Harvard, Yale won easily by 11 
to 5, which was largely due to the fact that Harvard was 
without her famous pitcher, Ernst. In the second game, 
played in Cambridge, Harvard turned the tables with the 
assistance of Ernst, by a score of 2 to o. 

In her games with Amherst, Brown, and Princeton, 
Yale lost but one game, to Brown by a score of 2 to 3. 

The third Harvard game, played in New Haven, Yale 
won, and the fourth, played in Cambridge, Harvard won. 
The deciding game, played in Providence, resulted in a 
victory for Harvard, by a score of 9 to 4. 



1880 

The first meeting of Harvard and Yale in this year 
resulted in the most crushing defeat to Harvard, that she 
had ever suffered at the hands of a Yale nine. The score 
was 21 to 4 runs, and Yale made 21 base hits with a total 
of 33. Harvard's battery was particularly poor. The 
second Harvard game, at Cambridge, Yale won by 2 to 1. 



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The third game played in New Haven, was very close 
and exciting, with abundant good plays on both sides. 
Harvard won by bunching her hits and bringing in three 
earned runs. The final score stood Harvard 3, Yale 1. 
The deciding game of the series was played in Cambridge 
and was a Yale victory by 3 runs to o. 

The Intercollegiate Baseball Association was formed in 
December, 1879, with Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Amherst, 
Dartmouth, and Brown, as members. Yale withdrew 
however, because the Association voted not to allow the 
playing of college men who had played on professional 
nines. Series of games were arranged with Harvard, 
Princeton, and Amherst, in which games Yale won seven 
and lost one. Thus Yale virtually won the championship, 
although Princeton stood first in the Association. 

In her games with professionals, Yale was singularly 
successful, winning 11 out of 13 games. 

1881 

With Princeton a close second to Yale in '80, the open- 
ing game with Princeton, was looked upon as being one 
that would in great measure determine the winner of the 
pennant for '81. Yale won by 6 to 5, the closeness of the 
score being partly due to a costly Yale error. Lamb's 
pitching for the first half of the game was good, and 
Watson's catching was fine, but his throwing was poor. 
In the game against Harvard, played in Cambridge, Yale 
was without the services of her pitcher, Lamb, and was 
defeated 9 to 19. The defeat of Yale by Dartmouth was 
unexpected, but was done by Dartmouth's good play and 
heavy batting. In the previous year Dartmouth had had 
a very strong team as was shown by her two victories 
over Harvard in that year. The second game with Har- 
vard, Yale won 8 to 5, but afterward lost a game to 
Princeton. 

Yale won the championship of the Association by 
winning seven games out of ten played. 



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1882 

In this season Yale lost one game each to Harvard, 
Princeton, and Brown. She however by winning 8 out 
of 1 1 games won the championship, with Princeton second. 

The first game played in New Haven, Harvard won by 
10 to 7, Yale retaliating in a closely fought game played 
in Cambridge. In the series with Princeton, Yale lost 
the second game but won the other two. 

1883 

The first College game of the season, with Amherst, 
was unexpectedly close, the score being 3 to 1 in favor of 
Yale. In the game with Harvard, Yale made three runs 
in the first inning, which being the only runs made by 
either side, won the game. The second game played in 
Cambridge Yale won 5 to 1. The first game with 
Princeton resulted in a victory for Yale by a score of 5 
to 4. By the victory over Amherst on June 13th, the 
championship was won for Yale by a record of seven 
straight victories. One 4 game remained to be played 
after the championship was decided. This was against 
Princeton, and largely owing to the loss of Jones, the 
Yale pitcher, the game was lost by a score of 3 to 2. It 
was a close contest throughout, as is attested by the fact 
of its being a ten-inning game. On June 26, an exhibition 
game with Harvard was played which resulted in a Yale 
victory 1 to O. Thus for the fourth year in succession 
the supremacy in base ball rested with Yale. 

1884 

Yale suffered her first defeat from Harvard in New 
Haven. At the second half of the ninth inning the score 
stood Yale 7, Harvard 4, and the crowd began to move 
away, thinking the game decided. By some heavy 
bunched hits, however, Harvard brought in four runs and 
won the game. Yale defeated Princeton, Dartmouth, 



g6 BASE BALL. 

Brown and Amherst in succession, but was again defeated 
by Harvard by 4 to 17 runs. The Yale nine were com- 
pletely outbatted and outplayed. Harvard made 18 base 
hits with a total of 26, while Yale made 9 with a total of 
14. Yale's hits were scattered and ineffective while Har- 
vard made nine earned runs. 

In an exhibition game played in New Haven Yale 
defeated Harvard 6 to 2, which encouraged Yale to hope 
for success in the deciding game. In the Association games 
Yale and Harvard were now tied for first place, Yale 
having lost two games to Harvard and Harvard having 
lost a game each to Amherst and Brown. The deciding 
game was played in Brooklyn, and, largely through the 
effective pitching of Odell, was won by Yale 4 to 2. 
Thus for five successive years Yale was champion in 
base ball. In the general averages (batting and fielding 
averages combined) Amherst stood first this year with 
.567, Yale second with .563, and Harvard third with .559. 

1885 

Harvard won the championship in base ball this year 
for the first time, by the remarkable record never before 
made, of winning all the Intercollegiate Championship 
games. Yale was clearly outplayed by her both at the 
bat and in the field, suffering two disastrous defeats with 
scores of 4 to 12, and 2 to 16. 

Princeton's defeat of Yale at Princeton by 1 to 5, tied 
Yale and Princeton for second place, both having lost 3 
games out of ten. 

The Yale nine contained many individual players of 
merit but lacked team play, and had no reliable pitcher. 
The Harvard nine was strong in every particular and was 
particularly well handled by Captain Winslow. 

1886 

Fifteen College games were played by Yale in this 
year, of which Yale lost two championship games, one to 



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Amherst and one to Harvard, and three exhibition games 
one to Columbia and two to Harvard. 

The first defeat was from the Columbia nine, who by 
bunching their hits won by a score of 3 to 1. The 
Columbia nine had a singularly brilliant season defeat- 
ing Harvard (by 5 too), as well as Yale, and losing but one 
game, to the University of Pennsylvania. It was said 
that no undergraduate of Columbia was on the nine, it 
being composed almost entirely of Law School men, 
among them two graduates of Princeton, one of Yale, 
etc. Yale made 9 base hits to Columbia's 3, and but one 
error to Columbia's three, despite which Columbia's 
telling hits won the game. The defeat of Yale by Am- 
herst, which was the only championship game won by 
the latter during the season, was due to Yale's over-con- 
fidence and poor play. 

The first championship game with Harvard occurred 
in New Haven, June 19th, and was won by Yale, 6 to 5. 
It was probably the most exciting contest played for 
many years, the score alternating in favor now of 
one, now of the other, in a most trying manner. The 
next game, at Cambridge, was won by Harvard with com- 
parative ease, 5 to 1. The deciding game was played at 
Hartford, Saturday, July 3d, the day after Yale's victory 
over Harvard on the Thames. The day was a terribly 
hot one. Yale led off at the bat with a base hit on the 
first ball, and from the start played with great determi- 
nation. 

About the third inning the victorious Yale crew arrived 
on the field, having come up from New London, and from 
that time on, the Harvard nine was completely demoral- 
ized. This victory of 7 to 1, brought Yale the champion- 
ship, which was doubly welcome after Yale's wretched 
performances in 1885. 

1887 

Two new men and one of the '86 substitutes, with six 
old men formed the Yale nine of '87. By the withdrawal 

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of Yale, Harvard and Princeton from the Intercollegiate 
Association, a new base ball association called the College 
League was formed. These three Colleges voted to 
admit Columbia, influenced by her fine record of the pre- 
vious year. After a few games, in which she was very 
badly worsted, and owing to difficulties in the way of hurt 
players and lack of support, Columbia withdrew from 
the League. The arrangement of games was that each 
College should play the other four games, two each to be 
on the home grounds. The League season was opened 
by the defeat of Princeton on her own grounds 2 to 1. 
The first game with Harvard played in New Haven was 
a crushing defeat for her, the score being 14 to 2. Up to 
the sixth inning the game was quite close the score being 
4 to 2 in favor of Yale. In the eighth inning the Yale 
nine bunched their hits in a terrific manner, making eight 
hits with a total of twelve, and allowing every man to 
make the round of the bases. Harvard made but four 
base hits during the game, to Yale's 18 with a total of 23. 

After such a victory over Harvard the fact of their 
turning the tables upon Yale in the next game, showed 
pluck as well as skill. The game was close, 7 to 5, but 
costly errors and scattered hits lost Yale the game. The 
game that decided the championship — for Yale won all 
her games with Princeton — was played in Cambridge 
and won by Yale 5 to 4. Thus, out of eight years of the 
existence of an Intercollegiate Association, Yale has been 
champion for seven years (including 1880, in which year 
Yale defeated Harvard, Princeton and Amherst, but was 
not in the Association), and Harvard has been once 
champion, in 1885. In games Yale and Harvard have 
each won 29 from the other, while Yale has won 30 from 
Princeton, to her 10 from Yale. 

Out of 162 college games played by Yale, she has won 
117 and lost 45. To other colleges than Harvard and 
Princeton, Yale has lost but six games, two to Amherst, 
two to Brown, one to Columbia, and one to Dartmouth. 
Including games with professionals, as well as college 
teams, Yale has made 537 more runs than her opponents. 



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YALE UNIVERSITY BASE BALL GAMES. 

* Exhibition Games. 



1865 

Date. Opponents. Place. Score. 
Sept. 30, Wesleyan, New Haven, 39-13 

1867 

Oct. 19, Columbia, New Haven, 46-12 
1868 

June 25, Princeton, New Haven, 30-23 
July 25, Harvard, Worcester, 17-25 

1869 

June 28, Williams, New Haven, 26- 8 
July 5, Harvard, Brooklyn, 24-41 

1870 

July 4, Harvard, New Haven, 22-24 
July 6, Princeton, New Haven, 12-49 

1871 

July 5, Harvard, New Haven, 19-22 
1872 

June 1, Harvard, New Haven, 13-32 
June 8, Harvard, Boston, 17-19 

i873 

May 10, Princeton, Princeton, 9- 2 
May 21, Princeton, New Haven, 9-10 
May 24, Harvard, New Haven, 15-16 
May 31, Harvard, Cambridge, 5-29 
Oct. 15, Princeton, Princeton, 4-18 

1874 

June 29, Princeton, Hartford, 16- 1 

July 7, Princeton, New York, 11- 3 

July 14, Harvard, Saratoga, 4- o 

July 15, Harvard, Saratoga, 7- 4 



1875 

Date. Opponents. Place. Score. 
May 26, Princeton, Princeton, 14- 4 
May 29, Princeton, New Haven, o- 3 
June 25, Amherst, Amherst, 5- 3 
June 26, Harvard, Boston, 9- 4 
June 28, Harvard, New Haven, 11- 4 
Princeton, (Forfeited.) 9- o 

1876 

May 17, Trinity, New Haven, 9- 4 
May 20, Princeton, Princeton, 12- 9 
May 27, Brown, Providence, 13- 5 
June 3, Harvard, Cambridge, 3- 4 
June 6, Princeton, New Haven, 13- 3 
June 26, Harvard, New Haven, 7- 6 
July 1, Harvard, Hartford, I- 5 

1877 

May 19, Amherst, Amherst, 9- 4 
May 23, Princeton, Princeton, 6- 4 
May 26, Harvard, New Haven, 5- o 
June 2, Trinity, Hartford, 5- o 
June 9, Princeton, New Haven, 8- 
June 15, Amherst, New Haven, 4- 5 
June 22, Harvard, Cambridge, 1-10 
June 25, Trinity, New Haven, 17- 1 
June 27, Amherst, Hartford, 24- 8 
June 30, Harvard, Hartford, 2- 5 

1878 

April 17, Trinity, Hartford, 6- 1 
April 27, Wesleyan, New Haven, 10- 1 
Ma)'- 15, Princeton, Princeton, 4- 5 
May 18, Harvard, New Haven, 4- 3 
May 22, Trinity, New Haven, 25- o 
May 25, Harvard, Cambridge, 11- 5 
June 4, Amherst, New Haven, 10- o 
June 5, Princeton, New Haven, 10- 2 



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Date. Opponents. Place. Score. 

June 21, Princeton, New York, 10- 3 

June 24, Harvard, New Haven, 3-11 

June 26, Harvard, Cambridge, 2- 9 

June 29, Harvard, Hartford, 3-16 

1879 

May 3, Princeton, Princeton, 13- 8 

May 10, Harvard, New Haven, 11- 5 

May 17, Harvard, Cambridge, o- 2 

May 24, Amherst, Amherst, 15- 1 

May 30, Brown, New Haven, 2- o 
May 31, Princeton, New Haven, 3- o 

June 9, Brown, Providence, 2- 3 

June 21, Amherst, New Haven, 10- 4 

June 23, Harvard, New Haven, 9- 5 

June 25, Harvard, Cambridge, 3- 7 

Brown, (Forfeited.) 9- o 

June 28, Harvard, Providence, 4- 9 



May 12, 
May 15, 
May 22, 
May 29, 
June 5, 
June 9, 
June 28, 
June 30, 



May 7, 
May 14, 
May 21, 
May 25, 
May 28, 
May 30, 
June 1, 
June 8, 
June 17, 
June 25, 



1880 

Princeton, (Forfeited.) 9- o 
Harvard, New Haven, 21- 4 
Amherst, Amherst, 8- o 
Harvard, Cambridge, 2- 1 
Amherst, New Haven, 14- 3 
Princeton, New Haven, 8- 1 
Harvard, New Haven, 1- 3 
Harvard, Cambridge, 3- o 



Princeton, 

Harvard, 

Dartmouth 

Brown, 

Harvard, 

Brown, 

Princeton, 

Dartmouth 

Amherst, 

Amherst, 



New Haven, 6- 5 
Cambridge, 9-14 
,Springfield, 3- 6 
New Haven, 19- 4 



New Haven, 
New Haven, 
Princeton, 
New Haven, 
New Haven, 



8- 5 

5- 2 

6- 7 
15- 5 
19- 9 



New Haven, 6- 3 



May 10, Brown, New Haven, 4- 2 
May 23, Brown, Providence, 8- 9 
May 24, Amherst, New Haven, 13- 1 



Date. 
May 27, 
May 30, 
June 3, 
June 6, 
*Jun. 10, 
June 22, 
June 24, 
June 27, 
June 28, 



May 5, 
May 12, 
May 19, 
May 26, 
May 30, 
June 2, 
June 13, 
*Jun. 20, 
June 23, 
*Jun.26, 
*July 3, 
*July 4, 



May 3, 
*May 10, 
May 14, 
May 
May 
May 
June 
June 
June 17, 
June 19, 
June 21, 
*Jun. 24, 
June 27, 



Opponents. 

Harvard, 

Princeton, 

Dartmouth. 

Dartmouth 

Rutgers, 

Harvard, 

Princeton, 

Princeton, 

Amherst, 



Place. 
New Haven, 
New York, 
New Haven, 
New York, 
New Haven, 
Cambridge, 
New York, 
New York, 
New Haven, 



1883 

Amherst, New Haven, 
New Haven, 
Providence, 
Cambridge, 
Princeton, New York, 
Brown, New Haven, 
Amherst, 
Cambridge, 
Princeton, New York, 
Harvard, New Haven, 
New York, 
Philadelphia, 



Harvard, 

Brown, 

Harvard, 



Amherst 
Harvard 



Harvard, 
Harvard, 



Brown, 

Harvard, 

Dartmouth, 

Harvard, 

Amherst, 

Princeton, 

Dartmouth, 

Amherst, 

Brown, 

Princeton, 

Harvard, 

Harvard, 

Harvard, 



Providence, 
Cambridge, 
New Haven, 
New Haven, 
Amherst, 
New York, 
New Haven, 
New Haven, 
New Haven, 
New York, 
Cambridge, 
New Haven, 
Brooklyn, 



Score' 

7- 10 
15- 8 

5- 4 

8- 3 
12- 2 

5- 4 
7- 8 

9- 5 
21- 8 



3- 1 

3- o 
6- 4 
5- 1 
5- 4 
8- o 

4- 2 
4- 1 
2- 3 

1- o 

2- 1 
23- 9 



8- 3 

8- 1 

6- 2 

7- 8 
17- 4 
16- 3 
12-11 

4- 3 

9- 6 
9- o 
4-17 
6- 2 
4- 2 



1885 

May 9, Princeton, New Haven, 5- 3 
May 13, Brown, New Haven, 11- 9 
May 16, Harvard, New Haven, 4-12 
*May 20, Trinity, New Haven, 20- 7 
May 22, Dartmouth, New Haven, 15- 6 



BASE BALL. 



101 



Date. 
May 27, 
*May 30, 
June 3, 
June 6, 
June 10, 
June 13, 
June 20, 
*Jun. 23, 



Opponents. 

Amherst, 

Williams, 

Brown, 

Princeton, 

Dartmouth, 

Amherst, 

Harvard, 

Princeton, 



Place. Score. 
Amherst, 10- g 
New Haven, 13- 4 
Providence, 8- 4 
Princeton, 5-1 1 
New Haven, 5- 3 
New Haven, 14- 2 
Cambridge, 2-16 
New Haven, 13-15 



1886 



*Apr. 

*May 

May 

*May 

May 

*May 

*May 

June 

June 

June 



27, U. of Penn. 
1, Williams, 
12, Brown, 
19, Columbia, 
22, Amherst, 
Harvard, 
Williams, 
Princeton, 
Princeton, 
Amherst, 



Philadelphia,i3- 3 
Williamst'n, 11- 3 
New Haven, 6- 1 
New Haven, 1- 3 
Amherst, 4- 5 
Cambridge, 2-14 
New Haven, 10- 3 
Princeton, 9- 8 
New Haven, 12-2 
New Haven, 9- 5 



Date. Opponents. 
June 12, Brown, 
June 19, Harvard, 
June 26, Harvard, 
*Jun. 29, Harvard, 
July 3, Harvard, 



Place. 
Providence, 
New Haven, 
Cambridge, 
New Haven, 
Hartford, 



Score. 
7- o 

6- 5 
1- 5 
9-10 

7- 1 



1887 

April 30, Princeton, Princeton, 2- 

*May 10, Trinity, New Haven, 9- 

May 14, Harvard, New Haven, 14- 

*May 17, Cornell, New Haven, 9- 

*May 21, Columbia, Staten Isl'd, 20- 

June 4, Princeton, New Haven, 15- 

June S, Harvard, Cambridge, 5- 

June ii, Princeton, Princeton, 9- 

*Jun. 17, Princeton, New Haven, 9- 

June 18, Princeton, New Haven, 10- 

June 25, Harvard, Cambridge, 5- 

June 28, Harvard, New Haven, 6- 



SUMMARY. 

Out of 162 college games played, Yale has won 117 and lost 45. Yale has won 
29 games from Harvard and lost 29 games to her ; won 30 games from Princeton 
and lost 10 games to her. To other colleges, Yale has lost six games : 2 to 
Amherst, 2 to Brown, 1 to Columbia, and 1 to Dartmouth. The total number of 
runs made by Yale and her opponents, including games with professionals, is as 
follows : Yale, 3,808 ; Opponents, 3,271. 



BEST FIELDING RECORDS, 1879 TO 1! 



Catcher, 


Hunt, 


Amherst, 


Pitcher, 


Nettleton, 


Dartmouth, 


1st Base, 


Childs, 


Yale, 


2d Base, 


Harris, 


Princeton, 


3d Base, 


Beaman, 


Harvard, 


Short Stop, 


Noyes, 


Yale, 


Left Fielder, 


Foster, 


Harvard, 


Center Fielder, 


j Wadleigh, ) 
/ Reynolds, ) 


Princeton, 


Right Fielder, 


Kellogg, 


Yale, 



.989 

.981 

1. 000 

.966 

•944 
.917 
1. 000 

1. 000 

1. 000 



BEST BATTING RECORDS. 
Highest single average, Nichols, Harvard, 

Highest total average, Nichols, Harvard, 



.500 
.905 



102 BASE BALL. 



INTERCOLLEGIATE BASE BALL ASSOCIATION, 1880-1888. 



Year. 


Contestants. 


Winner. 


No. of Games 
Won. 


Second. 


1880 


Harvard, Brown, 
Princeton, Dartmouth, 
Amherst, [Yale.] 


[Yale.] 


7 out of 8. 


Princeton. 


1881 


Yale, Amherst, 
Harvard, Brown, 
Princeton, Dartmouth. 


Yale. 


7 out of 10. 


Harvard, 

Prinrptnn 
JT lllluCLvJll. 


1882 


Yale, Amherst, 
Harvard, Brown, 
Princeton, Dartmouth. 


Yale. 


8 out of 11. 


Princeton. 


1883 


Yale, Amherst, 
Harvard, Brown. 
Princeton, 


Yale. 


7 out of 8. 


Princeton. 


1884 


Yale, Amherst, 
Harvard, Brown, 
Princeton, Dartmouth. 


Yale. 


9 out of II. 


Harvard. 


1885 


Yale, Amherst, 
Harvard, Brown, 
Princeton, Dartmouth. 


Harvard. 


10 out of 10. 


Yale, 
Princeton. 


1886 


Yale, Amherst, 
Harvard, Brown. 
Princeton, 


Yale. 


7 out of 9. 


Harvard. 


1887 


Yale, 

Harvard, 

Princeton. 


Yale. 


7 out of 8. 


Harvard. 



Summary. — Championship won by Yale, 7 years ; Harvard, 1 year. Sec- 
ond place won by Princeton, 5 years ; Harvard, 4 years ; Yale, 1 year. 



BASE BALL. 103 



YALE-HARVARD FRESHMAN SERIES, 1866-1888. 



Yale, 


'69, vs. Harvard, 


'69, 


Worcester, July 26, 1866, 


36-33 


Yale, 


'69, vs. Harvard, 


'69, 


Worcester, July 18, 1867, 


23- 


-22 


Yale, 


'70, vs. Harvard, 


'70, 


Worcester, July 18, 1867, 


38- 


-18 


Yale, 


'71, vs. Harvard, 


'7i, 


Worcester, July 23, 1868, 


19-39 


Yale, 


'72, vs. Harvard, 


'72, 


Providence, July 6, 1869, 


28- 


-19 


Yale, 


'73, vs. Harvard, 


'73, 


Springfield, June 25, 1870, 


21- 


-18 


Yale, 


'74, vs. Harvard, 


'74, 


New Haven, June 26, 1871, 


15- 


-10 


Yale, 


'75, vs. Harvard, 


'75, 


New Haven, June 25, 1872, 


8- 


- 1 


Yale, 


'76, vs. Harvard, 


'76, 


New Haven, May 31, 1873, 


4- 


-25 


Yale, 


'77, vs. Harvard, 


'77, 


Boston, June 22, 1874, 


4- 


-10 


Yale, 


'77, vs. Harvard, 


'77, 


Boston, June 23, 1874, 


28- 


-14 


Yale, 


'77, vs. Harvard, 


'77, 


Boston, June 24, 1874, 


7- 


-16 


Yale, 


'78, vs. Harvard, 


'78, 


Cambridge, June 5, 1875, 


3- 


- 6 


Yale, 


'78, vs. Harvard, 


'78, 


New Haven, June 17, 1875, 


18- 


- 8 


Yale, 


'78, vs. Harvard, 


'78, 


Springfield, June 25, 1875, 


17- 


- 4 


Yale, 


'79, vs. Harvard, 


'79. 


New Haven, May 3, 1876, 


14- 


-13 


Yale, 


'79, vs. Harvard, 


'79, 


Cambridge, June 17, 1876, 


9" 


-14 


Yale, 


'79, vs. Harvard, 


'79. 


Hartford, June 24, 1876, 


12- 


-20 


Yale, 


'80, vs. Harvard, 


'80, 


Cambridge, May 12, 1877, 


7- 


- 8 


Yale, 


'80, vs. Harvard, 


'80, 


New Haven, June 2, 1877, 


15- 


- 1 


Yale, 


'81, vs. Harvard, 


'81, 


New Haven, May 11, 1878, 


8- 


• 1 


Yale, 


'81, vs. Harvard, 


'81, 


Cambridge, June 1, 1878, 


4- 


-11 


Yale, 


'82, vs. Harvard, 


'82, 


New Haven, April 26, 1879, 


19- 


■11 


Yale, 


'82, vs. Harvard, 


'82, 


Cambridge, May 31, 1879, 


6- 


• 5 


Yale, 


'83, vs. Harvard, 


'83, 


New Haven, May 22, 1880, 


1- 


■ 


Yale, 


'83, vs. Harvard, 


'83, 


Cambridge, June 5, 1880, 


5- 


■ 5 


Yale, 


'84, vs. Harvard, 


'84, 


New Haven, May 21, 1881, 


15- 


2 


Yale, 


'84, vs. Harvard, 


'84, 


Cambridge, June 4, 1881, 


21- 


- 2 


Yale, 


'85, vs. Harvard, 


'85, 


New Haven, May 10, 1882, 


5- 


■ 4 


Yale, 


'85, vs. Harvard, 


'85, 


Cambridge, June 10, 1882, 


7- 


■ 6 


Yale, 


'86, vs. Harvard, 


'86, 


New Haven, May 19, 1883, 


8- 


• 1 


Yale, 


'86, vs. Harvard, 


'86, 


Cambridge, June 9, 1883, 


9- 


16 


Yale, 


'86, vs. Harvard, 


'86, 


Springfield, June 23, 1883, 


6- 


4 


Yale, 


'87, vs. Harvard, 


'87, 


New Haven, May 31, 1884, 


17- 


8 


Yale, 


'87, vs. Harvard, 


'87, 


Cambridge, June 7, 1884, 


1- 


5 


Yale, 


'88, vs. Harvard, 


'88, 


Cambridge, May 16, 1885, 


11- 


11 


Yale, 


'88, vs. Harvard, 


'88, 


New Haven, May 23, 1885, 


14- 


11 


Yale, 


'89, vs. Harvard, 


'89, 


Cambridge, May 19, 1886, 


4" 


11 


Yale, 


'89, vs. Harvard, 


'89, 


New Haven, June 12, 1886, 


7- 


8 


Yale, 


'90, vs. Harvard, 


'90, 


Cambridge, May 18, 1887, 


19- 


7 


Yale, 


'90, vs. Harvard, 


'90, 


New Haven, June 8, 1887, 


10- 


2 



Summary. — Yale Freshmen, 26 games ; Harvard Freshmen, 13. Tie 
games, 2. 



104 



BASE BALL. 



YALE UNIVERSITY BASE BALL MEN. 



1865 

H. W. Reeve ; fj. Coffin, '68 ; C. A. Edwards, '66 ; Jewell ; J. U. Taintor, 
'66 ; E. Coffin, '66 ; L. E. Condict, '69 ; C. F. Brown, '66 ; A. H. Terry, '65. 



1866 

C. F. Brown, '66 ; G. P. Sheldon, '67 ; J. U. Taintor, '66 ; T. S. Van Volk- 
enburgh, '66 ; C. A. Edwards, '66 ; J. L. Varick, '68 ; fj. Coffin, '68 ; L. E. 
Condict, '69 ; H. W. Reeve. 

1867 

fj. Coffin, '68 ; J. G. K. McClure, '70 ; L. E. Condict, '69; J. W. Shattuck, 
'70 ; T. Hooker, '69 ; B. A. Fowler, '68 ; E. G. Selden, '70 ; E. A. Lewis, '70 ; 
T. McClintock, '70. 

1868 

T. McClintock, '70 ; E. A. Lewis, '70 ; L. E. Condict, '69 ; H. A. Cleve- 
land, '70 ; fT. Hooker, '69 ; S. S. McCutchen, '70 ; W. Buck, '70 ; C. Dem- 
ing, '72 ; E. G. Selden, '70. 

1869 

T. McClintock, '70 ; C. Deming, '72 ; T. Hooker, '69 ; |S. S. McCutchen, 
'70 ; C. French, '72 ; L. E. Condict, '69 ; G. Richards, '72 ; W. B. Wheeler, 
'72 ; E. A. Lewis, '70. 

1870 

W. Buck, '70 ; W. B. Wheeler, '72 ; G. Richards, '72 ; G. F. Bentley, '73 ; 
H. S. Payson, '72 ; S. S. McCutchen, '70 ; C. O. Day, '72 ; C. H. Thomas, '73 ; 
|C. Deming, '72. 

1871 

A. B. Nevin, '74 ; G. Richards, '72 ; fC. Deming, '72 ; H. C. Deming, '72 ; 
P. Barnes, '74 ; C. Maxwell, '75 ; C. O, Day, '72 ; G. F. Bentley, '73 ; W. B. 
Wheeler, '72. 

1872 

H. C. Deming, '72; P. Barnes, '74; G. Richards, '72; |C. Deming, '72; 
C. Maxwell, '74 ; G. F. Bentley, '73 ; A. B. Nevin, '74 ; C. O. Day, '72 ; F. 
W. Foster, '74. 

f Indicates Captain. 



BASE BALL. 



105 



1873 

C. Maxwell, '74 ; C. H. Avery, '75 ; G. F. Bentley, '73 ; J. L. Scudder, '74 ; 
S. J. Elder, '73 ; fA. B. Nevin, '74 ; F. H. Wright, '73 ; F. W. Foster, '74 ; 
W. H. Hotchkiss, '75. 

1874 

W. H. Hotchkiss, '75 ; A. B. Nevin, '74 ; G. F. Bentley, '73 ; fC. H. 
Avery, '75 ; J. L. Scudder, '74 ; E. E. Osborn, '74 S.; C. Maxwell, '74; E. 
C. Smith, '75 ; F. W. Foster, '74. 

1875 

W. H. Hotchkiss, '75 ; Morgan, '78 ; Knight ; fC. H. Avery, '75 ; C. 
Maxwell, '75 ; W. I. Bigelow, '77 ; D. A. Jones, '75 ; E. C. Smith, '75 ; F. W. 
Wheaton, '77. 

1876 

Morgan, '78 ; fW. I. Bigelow, '77 ; F. W. Wheaton, '77 ; C. M. Dawes, '76 ; 
C. F. Carter, '78 ; F. H. Piatt, '77 ; W. V. Downer, '78 ; Williams, '77 ; L. W. 
Maxson, '76. 

1877 

F. W. Wheaton, '77 ; Morgan, '78 ; fW. I. Bigelow, '77 ; G. H. Clark, '80 ; 
Williams, '77 ; E. W. Smith, '78 ; W. V. Downer, '78 ; C. F. Carter, '78 ; O. W. 
Brown, '78. 

1878 

W. F. Hutchison, *8o ; W. Parker, '8o ; E. W. Smith, '78 ; A. L. Ripley, 
'78 ; fW. V. Downer, '78 ; H. T. Walden, '81 ; F. W. Brown, '78 S.; C. F. 
Carter, '78 ; G. H. Clark, '8o. 

1879 

fW. F. Hutchison, '80 ; W. Parker, '80 ; B. B. Lamb, '81 ; H. T. Walden, 
'81 ; S. C. Hopkins, '82 ; W. C. Camp, '80 ; G. H. Clark, '80 ; R. W. Watson, 
'8 1 S.; A. L. Ripley, P. G. 

1880 

W. Parker, '80; fB. B. Lamb, '81 ; G. H. Clark, '80; W. F. Hutchison, 
'80 ; W. C. Camp, '80 ; H. T. Walden, '81 ; S. C. Hopkins, '82 ; R. W. Wat- 
son, '81 S.; W. I. Badger, '82. 

1881 

fH. T. Walden, '81 ; H. B. Piatt, '82 ; B. B. Lamb, '81 ; W. F, Hutchison, 
P. G.; W. C. Camp, M. S.; S. C. Hopkins, '82 ; R. W. Watson, '81 S.; H. 
Ives, '81 ; W. I. Badger, '82. 



io6 



BASE BALL. 



1882 

A. Hubbard, '83 S.; W. C. Camp, M. S.; H. B. Piatt, '82 ; S. C. Hopkins, 
'82 ; fW. I. Badger, '82 ; A. E. Smith, '83 ; D. A. Jones, '83 ; H. C. Hopkins, 
'84 ; D. H. Wilcox, Jr., '84. 

1883 

fA. Hubbard, '83 S.; C. M. Griggs, '83 ; H. C. Hopkins, '84 ; S. B. Childs, 
'83 ; D. A. Jones, '84 ; W. Terry, '85 ; J. I. Souther, '84 ; O. McKee, '84 ; D. 
A. Carpenter, L. S. 

1884 

fH. C. Hopkins, '84 ; W. Terry, '85 ; J. I. Souther, '84 ; O. McKee, '84 ; 
W. S. Brigham, '86 ; J. C. Oliver, '85 ; S. A. Booth, '84 ; P. B. Stewart, '86 ; 
S. K. Bremner, '86. 

1885 

S. K. Bremner, '86 ; fW. Terry, '85 ; F. A. Marsh, '86 S.; A. A. Stagg, '88 ; 
W. B. Sheppard, '87 ; J. A. Merrill, '85 ; P. B. Stewart, '86 ; W. B. Hickox, 
'86 S.; P. G. Willett, '88. 

1886 

J. C. Dann, '88 S.; A. A. Stagg, '88 ; J. F. Cross, T. S.; F. A. Marsh, '86 S.; 
fP. B. Stewart, '86 ; S. K. Bremner, '86 ; W. S. Brigham, '87 ; W. B. Shep- 
pard, '87 ; H. F. Noyes, '89. 

1887 

fj. C. Dann, '88 S.; A. A. Stagg, '88 ; A. K. Spencer, '89 S.; C. B. McConkey, 
'88 ; P. B. Stewart, P. G.; H. F. Noyes, '89 ; W. S. Brigham, '87 ; J. F. Hunt, 
L. S.; F. S. Kellogg, '87 S. 

Summary. — In base ball, 96 men have filled 207 places. Of these, 4 played 
5 years; 8 played 4 years ; 25 played 3 years ; 21 played 2 years, and 38 
played 1 year. The men who played 5 years were Condict, '69 ; C. Deming, 
'72 ; Bentley, '73 ; Maxwell, '75. The men who played four years were 
Richards, '72 ; Nevin, '74 ; Clark, '80 ; Hutchison, '80 ; Camp, '80 ; Walden, 
'81 ; Hopkins, '82 ; Stewart, '86. 



Track Athletics — 187 2-1 888. 



1872 

The first field games of the " Yale Athletic Association " 
were held at Hamilton Park, New Haven, on Saturday, 
May 4th, 1872. The Athletic Association was under the 
control of the boating and ball clubs, and its first effort 
was pronounced a decided success. The contests included, 
besides the usual runs and jumps, a three-legged race, 
standing broad and high jumps, a four-hundred yards' 
walk, and a consolation race. 

1874 

Despite the success of this first attempt, the second 
field meeting was not held until October 31, 1874, al- 
though Yale sent two representatives to the intercollegi- 
ate contests held at Saratoga, July 20th, in connection 
with the annual regatta of American colleges. Yale's 
two representatives, A. B. Nevins, who was entered for 
the 100-yards dash, and C. Maxwell, who was entered for 
the 120-yards hurdle race, won their events. It is rather 
a reflection upon Mr. Nevins' competitors that, at the 
start, he slipped and fell; still he is described as running 
" in the most elegant style." His reported time of \oy 2 
seconds appears rather doubtful, too, in view of the delay 
such an accident would cause him. Maxwell's time in 
the hurdle was 20^ seconds. Among the other winners 
were E. Copeland, of Cornell, who won the mile run in 
4.58^ seconds ; Downes, of Wesleyan, who won the three- 
mile run, and Eustis, of Wesleyan, who won the seven- 
mile walk. 



io8 



TRACK ATHLETICS. 



1875 

The third meeting of the Yale Athletic Association met, 
May 19th, and was of more than ordinary interest since 
upon the winners devolved the duty of representing Yale 
at the intercollegiate athletic contests to be held in Sara- 
toga on the day following the regatta. One excellent 
stipulation made was that, unless the events were up to a 
certain standard, no prize should be awarded. 

The Yale representatives to the intercollegiate were 
Messrs. Trumbull and Maxwell. Both were in poor con- 
dition, Maxwell having been disabled in the Yale-Harvard 
ball game, and Trumbull having wrenched his hip in 
practice. 

Trumbull won the half-mile and took second in the 
quarter-mile. Maxwell won the hurdle-race easily in 
ig% seconds. The other winners were Taylor, of Harv- 
ard, in the seven and the three-mile walk; Morell, of 
Amherst, in the three-mile run; Eustis, of Wesleyan, in 
the graduates' seven-mile walk ; Potter, of Cornell, in the 
100-yards ; Culver, of Union, in the quarter-mile run; 
Barber, of Amherst, in the mile-run, and Piatt, of Wil- 
liams, in the mile walk; Yale, Harvard and Amherst won 
two first prizes each, and Williams, Cornell, and Union 
one first each. 

Annual fall games were started at Yale this year, and 
were an unqualified success, the most interesting event 
being the running high jump of Gale, '78 S., who cleared 
five feet, three inches, which was pronounced "the finest 
amateur jumping ever done in America." 

1876 

The intercollegiate games were held for the third year 
at Saratoga immediately after the annual regatta. A 
challenge cup, valued at $500, now commonly known as 
the Mott Haven Cup, was presented to the intercollegi- 
ate association to be awarded every year to the college 
winning most first prizes at the annual meeting. In case 



TRACK ATHLETICS. 



IO9 



of a tie in the number of first prizes the number of second 
prizes was to decide the holder of the cup. In this year 
it was won by Princeton, who took four first prizes ; in 
the half-mile run, putting the shot, three-mile walk, and 
base ball throw. The two latter were won by T. A. 
Noble and J. M. Mann (with a throw of 368 feet, 6 inches) 
respectively, the names of the other winners being in the 
table of statistics. Williams and Dartmouth each won 
two first prizes and Yale, Columbia, Univ. of Penn., and 
C. C. N. Y., secured one each. 

The chief feature of the meeting was the hurdling of 
Wakeman, of Yale, who made the fastest amateur time in 
America, 18^ seconds. It is a curious commentary on 
the taste of the times, that the hurdle and 100-yards races 
were regarded as tame, while a three or seven-mile walk 
was considered most interesting and exciting. 

From '76 to '79 inclusive the track athletics at Yale 
were trained by W. C. and L. C. Dole. 

1877 

No spring games were held at Yale this year, and for 
three years Yale sent no representatives to the intercol- 
legiate meetings, entering the association again in 1880. 

The intercollegiate games were held at Mott Haven 
for the first time this year, an experiment that proved 
very acceptable to college men. Columbia, Princeton 
and the University of Pennsylvania were most prom- 
inent for the number of their representatives, and were 
rewarded by a correspondingly large number of prizes. 
Three records were broken, in the 220-yards and 440- 
yards runs, and in the running broad jump, in which 
H. H. Lee, University of Pennsylvania, made the best 
jump ever yet made in America, 19 feet, 7 inches. The 
events not mentioned in the tables were a two-mile 
walk, won by Mr. Eldredge of Columbia, in 16 minutes, 
24 seconds, and the graduates' 100-yards' and mile walk, 
won, respectively, by Messrs. Duffield, of Princeton, and 
Beach, of Princeton. The prizes awarded were gold and 



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silver medals for firsts and seconds. The Mott Haven 
Cup was won by Columbia with six first prizes. 

1878 

Columbia again won the cup this year, taking seven 
first prizes. Mott Haven having proved so satisfactory, 
was again chosen this year by the intercollegiate associa- 
tion. The most noteworthy event was the high jump- 
ing of J. P. Conover, Columbia, who cleared 5 feet, 6y 2 
inches, breaking the amateur record. Of the events not 
in the tables, Larkin, of Princeton, won the standing 
jumps, broad and high ; Eldredge, of Columbia, the two- 
mile walk ; Dufneld, of Princeton, the graduates' 100- 
yards, and Parmly, of Columbia, the graduates' one-mile 
walk. 

1879 

For the third year in succession Columbia secured the 
• Mott Haven Cup, winning six first places. The meeting 
of this year was an unusually successful one, eight inter- 
collegiate records being broken, and three amateur Ameri- 
can. The best work was done by J. P. Conover, of Colum- 
bia, who jumped 5 feet, 8*^ inches, in the running high 
jump, and 20 feet in the broad jump ; and by F. Larkin, 
of Princeton, who threw the hammer 87 feet, 1 inch, and 
put the shot 33 feet, S}4 inches. Larkin also won the 
standing high and broad jumps, doing 4 feet, 6^ inches, 
and 10 feet, 3^ inches, respectively. The other events 
not in the tables were the two-mile walk won by R. H. 
Sayre, Columbia, and the graduates' 100-yards and one- 
mile walk, won by W. Waller, Columbia, and E. J. Mc- 
Elvaine of Princeton, respectively. The latter started 
alone in his race. 

1880 

For the first time Harvard won the cup this year. The 
best performances were in the mile run, pole vault, broad 



TRACK ATHLETICS. 



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jump and putting the shot, in which the intercollegiate 
records were broken. 

The standing high and broad jumps were taken by W. 
Soren, of Harvard, the former being a very creditable 
performance of 4 feet, 11% inches. Eighteen colleges 
were represented in the games. 

The mile run of T. Dewitt Cuyler, of Yale, who estab- 
lished the record of 4 minutes 37f seconds, only broken 
in 1887, was a noticeable feature of the games. 

1881 

Harvard won the cup again in this year. Mr. Evert J. 
Wendell, of Harvard, who had been running at the inter- 
collegiate meetings for the two years previous, cut down 
his records, making the 100 yards in 10% seconds, and the 
220 yards in the then record time of 23-^ seconds. The 
standing high jump was won by W. Soren, of Harvard. 

The Tug-of-war, introduced the year before but not 
actually contested, was won this year by Princeton. The 
time allowed for a pull was ten minutes, and the amount 
of rope pulled away from a losing team something aston- 
ishing according to our present ideas. For instance, 
Princeton pulled Columbia by 6 feet, 6 inches, and Penn- 
sylvania by 4 feet, 7 inches. 

1882 

In this year the games (after having been held at Mott 
Haven for five years) were held at the Manhattan Polo 
Grounds. 

The best work this year was done by PI. S. Brooks of 
Yale, who ran a 100-yards in 10^- and beat the intercol- 
legiate and amateur record in the 220 yards by running 
it in 2254 seconds. The records in hammer-throwing 
and the broad-jump were beaten. In the tug-of-war 
Harvard was pulled by the C. C. N. Y., while Columbia 
and Pennsylvania pulled a dead heat for ten minutes. 
In a second trial between these two Columbia won by 
13 inches. Harvard won the cup with six firsts. 



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I88 3 

The greatest surprise of this year was the wonderful 
tug-of-war team turned out by Lafayette, which defeated 
Harvard by 3 feet, 4 inches. The high jump record was 
improved by Atkinson, of Harvard, to 5 feet, g}i inches, 
and the hammer record by Kip, of Harvard, to 88 feet, 11 
inches. The quarter and half mile runs won by W. H. 
Goodwin of Harvard in the record time of 51 -J- sec. and 
2 min., 2 sec, were excellent features of the games. 

The average of performances this year was good. 
Harvard won the cup, taking seven firsts. 

1884 

The place of meeting was transferred this year from 
the Polo Grounds to the Manhattan Athletic Club 
grounds, which have been used ever since. 

The famous 220 yards dash between Baker, of Harv- 
ard, and Brooks, of Yale, occurred this year. Brooks had 
been urged to break the 150 yards' record and made a 
tremendous effort up to that point, establishing a record 
of iS}i seconds and leading Baker there by 1% feet. 
Baker won in 22J-, however, breaking the record with 
Brooks a very close second. The intercollegiate records 
were broken, also, in the hurdle race, high jump and 
broad jump. Harvard won the cup with five firsts. 

1885 

In only two contests this year were intercollegiate rec- 
ords broken, the high jump and putting the shot. Baker, 
of Harvard, who made the amateur American record of 
22J- in the 220 yards in 1884, won without being pushed 
in 23f. W. B. Page, University of Pennsylvania, won the 
high jump for the first time this year by clearing 5 feet, 
11^6 inches. The fact that he stands only 5 feet, 6^ 
inches, in his stockings, and jumps nine inches over his 
own height, makes him the most wonderful jumper the 
world has ever seen. His best jump, up to this time, was 



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113 



6 feet, % inch, which fails of being marvelous only in 
view of the fact that, in the spring of 1888, he jumped 
6 feet, 4 inches. Harvard won the cup with four firsts. 




1886 

The intercollegiate meeting of this year was an inter- 
esting one and remarkable for the large number of entries 
made. They numbered 236, and of nineteen colleges in 
the association, all but four were represented. 

The 100 yards race was the first event and upon it de- 
pended whether the cup was to go to Harvard or Yale. 
In the final heat Rogers, of Harvard, and Sherrill, of Yale, 
ran what was practically a dead-heat. At first Sherrill 
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was thought by all to be the winner, but the judges de- 
clared for Rogers, with Sherrill an exceedingly close sec- 
ond. By this decision Yale lost the cup, winning four 
first prizes to Harvard's five. 

In the 120-yards hurdle Ludington, of Yale, broke his 
own intercollegiate record, doing the distance in 17 sec- 
onds. In the hammer-throwing Coxe, of Yale, broke 
the intercollegiate record by a throw of 95 feet, 11 
inches. The high jump was won by Page, of Pennsyl- 
vania, who did 5 feet, 11^ inches, establishing an inter- 
collegiate record. 

1887 

The winning of the Cup by Yale this year was the re- 
sult of much hard and earnest work, and also of the carry- 
ing out of a principle in track athletics, long recognized 
at Harvard, that of forming a "team" to compete, and 
not a number of individuals. The excellence of the per- 
formances of the Yale men, in breaking four intercollegi- 
ate records, was a noticeable feature of the games. 

The records broken were as follows : Coxe threw the 
hammer 98 feet, 6 inches, and put the shot 40 feet, 9% 
inches. Shearman covered 21 feet,. 7^ inches in the 
broad jump, and Harmar ran a mile in 4 minutes, 36^ sec- 
onds. After having won for three years in the tug-of- 
war, Harvard was pulled by Columbia. 



In total number of first and second prizes won in inter- 
collegiate track athletic contests, it will be seen, from the 
tables, that Harvard stands first, followed by Columbia, 
Yale, Princeton and Pennsylvania in the order named, 
with the smaller colleges scattering. In best records, 
however, Yale and Harvard stand tied with five each, 
while Pennsylvania holds two and Lafayette one. 



One Mile Walk. 


W.M.Watson,C.C.N.Y. 

8 min. 7 sec. 
Noble, Princeton. 


C. Eldredge, Col. 

7 min. 30 sec. 
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R. H. Sayre, Colum. 

7 min. 49 sec. 
L. O. Emmerich, Leh- 


R. H. Sayre, Colum. 

7 min. 54! sec. 
W. H. Herrick, Har. 


R. H. Sayre, Colum. 

7 min. 36^ sec. 
W. H. Herrick, Har. 


One Mile Run. 


Stimson, Dartmouth 

4 min. 58^ sec. 
Green, Princeton. 


W. Beams, Colum. 

5 min. 33^ sec. 
Hammond, Colum. 


M. Paton, Princeton. 

5 min. 4^ sec. 
C. S. Hawks, Harv. 


C. H. Trask, Jr., Col. 

5 min. 24I sec. 
R. T. P. Fiske, Col. 


T. D.W.Cuyler.Yale. 

4 min. 37$ sec. 
A. Thorndike, Har. 


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R. A. Green, Prince. 

2 min. 16^ sec. 
White, Wesleyan. 


G. M. Hammond, Col. 

2 min. 20]/ z sec. 
B. B. Nostrand, Leh. 


A. I. Burton, Colum. 

2 min. 8^ sec. 
J. H. Simmons, Har. 


C.H.Coggswell.Dar. 

2 min. 12 sec. 
E.A.White, U.of Pa. 


E. A. Ballard, U. Pa. 

2 min. 9 sec. 
G. H. Taylor, Colum. 


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Young, Dartmouth. 


G. M. Hammond, Col. 

54 sec. 
B. Hughes, Univ. Pa. 


A. I. Burton, Colum. 

54^ sec. 
J. H. Simmons, Har. 


C. H. Coggswell, Dar. 

54l sec. 
J. H. Simmons, Har. 


E. J. Wendell, Harv. 

55r, sec. 
R. Combes, Colum. 


E. A. Ballard, U. Pa. 

53s- sec. 
C. G. Willson, Prin. 








H. H. Lee, Univ. Pa. 

23^ sec. 
W. Waller, Columbia 


H. H. Lee, Univ. Pa. 

23! sec. 
W. Waller, Columbia 


E. J. Wendell, Harv. 

24! sec. 
T. J. Brereton, Col. 


E. J. Wendell, Harv. 

24! sec. 
P. St.G. Bissell, Col. 


E. J.Wendell, Harv. 

23i sec. 
J. F. Jenkins, Col. 


1 20 Yards Hurdle. 


W. J. Wakeman, Yale 
18^ sec. 




Stevenson, Princeton 

i8>£ sec. 
Geyelin, Univ. Pa. 


T. W. Pryor, Col. 

21 J sec. 
B. Hughes, Univ. Pa. 


J. E. Cowdin, Harv. 

19I sec. 
W. T. Lawson, Col. 


H. B. Strong, Lehigh, 
sec. 

D. Jones, Yale. 


Morrow, Lehigh. 

lift sec. 
W. P.Trowbridge, Y. 


100 Yards Dash. 


Stevens, Williams. 

11 sec. 
Wakeman, Yale. 


H.H.Lee, Univ.of Pa. 

\o\ sec. 
E. H. Herrick, Harv. 


H. H. Lee, Univ. Pa. 

io^ sec. 
W.Waller, Columbia 


H. H. Lee, Univ. Pa. 

iof sec. 
Randolph, Rutgers. 


E. J. Wendell, Harv. 

iof sec. 
E. W. Brown, Col. 


E.J.Wendell, Harv. 

10^ sec. 
J. F. Jenkins, Col. 


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July 20. 


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W. P. Wurts, Yale. 

7 min. 57 sec. 
W. P. Field, Colum. 


C. A. Reed, Colum. 

6 min. 51 sec. 
S. Williston, Harv. 


Throwing Hammer. 








G. Parmeley, Prince. 

75 ft. 10 in. 
F. Larkin, Princeton. 


F. Larkin, Princeton. 

76 ft. 9 in. 
R. Blackwell, Prince. 


F. Larkin, Princeton. 

87 ft. 1 in. 
R. W. Blackwell, Pr. 


J. F. Bush, Columbia. 

84 ft. 3 in. 
S. L. Irons, Brown. 


J.H.Montgomery, Co. 

76 ft. 9^ in. 
D. B. Porter, Colum. 


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33 feet. 
Stevenson, Princeton 


F. Larkin, Princeton. 

32 ft. nj4 in. 
J. D.Wilson, Dartm. 


F. Larkin, Princeton. 

33 ft- 8^ in. 
C. H. Dodge, Prince. 


A. T. Moore, Stevens. 

35 ft. 1% in. 
S. L. Irons, Brown. 


A. T. Moore, Stevens. 

34 ft. 11 in. 
W. T. Wilson, Leh. 


Pole Vault. 








J. Pryor, Columbia. 

7 ft. 9 in. 
F. Larkin, Princeton. 


C. Fabregon, C. N. Y. 
9 ft. 

B. F. Harrah, U. Pa. 


F. H. Lee, Columbia. 

9 ft. 3 in. 
J. B. Waller, Prince. 


R. B. Tewksbury, Pr. 

9 ft. 4 in. 
F. B. Keene, Harv. 


F. W. Dalrymple, Le. 

8 ft. 9 in. 
O. Harriman, Prince. 


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20 ft. 2 in. 
F. H.Thompson, Har. 


J. F.Jenkins, Jr., Col. 

20 ft. 9X in. 
G. C. Thayer, U. Pa. 


Running High fump. 


J. Pryor, Columbia. 

5 ft. 2j4 in. 
Mann, Princeton. 


H. L. Geyelin, U. Pa. 
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R. H. Sayre, Colum. 


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6 min. 52f sec. 
G. Rood, Colum. 


A. Reed, Colum. 
6 min. 53% sec. 
T. Howard, Col. 


B. Hamilton, Yale. 
6 min. 483 sec. 
A. Reed, Colum. 


B. Hamilton, Yale. 

7 min. 29 sec. 
L. Dean, Harvard. 


B. Keen, Univ. Pa. 
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J. Kolb, Univ. Pa. 

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P. Porter, Colum. 


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83 ft. 2 in. 
len, Harvard. 


B. Coxe, Yale. 

88 ft. ^ in. 
Dson, Harvard. 


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95 ft. 11 in. 
B. Chamberlain, H. 


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98 ft. 6 in. 
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Harriman, Princ 


P. Toler, Prince 

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Harriman, Princ 


L. Hodge, Princ 
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F. Jenkins, Col. 

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TRACK ATHLETICS. 



FIRST PRIZES INTERCOLLEGIATE GAMES, 1876-1887. 



Harvard. Columbia. Yale. Pennsylvania. Princeton. 



1876 . 


— 


1 


1 


1 


4 


1877 




6 




4 


3 


1878 . 




7 




2 


5 


1879 


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6 


3 


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5 


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1 


6 


3 






43 


40 


25 


22 


21 



Note. — Lafa} r ette has won 4 first prizes ; Dartmouth, 4 ; Lehigh, 3 ; Wil- 
liams, 3 ; Stevens, 3 ; Wesleyan, 2 ; Amherst, 2 ; C. C. N. Y., 2 ; Cornell, 2 ; 
Union 1, and Michigan 1. 



SECOND PRIZES INTERCOLLEGIATE GAMES, 1876-18S7. 

Harvard. Columbia. Yale. Pennsylvania. Princeton. 



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3 


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4 


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8 




4 






1887 


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3 


4 


1 






44 


37 


16 


11 


21 



Note. — Lafayette has won 3 second prizes ; Lehigh, 3 ; Dartmouth, 3 ; 
Brown, 2 ; Rutgers, 2 ; C. C. N. Y., 2 ; Wesleyan, 1 ; Amherst, 1 ; Hobart, 1. 



TRACK ATHLETICS. 121 



TABLE SHOWING IMPROVEMENT IN INTERCOLLEGIATE 
RECORDS FROM 1876-1887. 

1876. 1887. 
min. sec. min. sec. 







11 


10 


220 yards dash, 




23K (i377) 


22 






56 




Half-mile run, 


2 


i6# 2 


1 




• 4 


58K 4 


36! 


One mile walk, 


8 


7 7 


1 


120 yards hurdle, 






17 


Two mile bicycle, . 


7 


57 (1880) 6 


17 




feet. 


in. feet. 


in. 


Running high jump, 


5 


2^ 6 


% 


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. 18 


3 l A 21 




Pole vault 


7 


9 (1877) 10 


1% 


Throwing hammer, 


• 75 


10 (1877) 98 


6 


Putting shot, 


30 


11% 40 


9K 



Note. — Although in a few instances the performances of 1876 were not 
equal to those of previous years, they have been here given, because of the 
more reliable timing and measuring. 



THE MOTT 

1876 — Princeton. 

1877 — Columbia. 

1878 — Columbia. 

1879 — Columbia. 

1880 — Harvard. 

1881— Harvard. 



HAVEN CUP. 

1882— Harvard. 

1883— Harvard. 

1884— Harvard. 

1885— Harvard. 

1886— Harvard. 

1887— Yale. 



Intercollegiate Lawn-Tennis Association. 



1883 

On the 17th of April, 1883, a meeting was held at 
Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., at which delegates 
from Amherst and Brown were present, the object of the 
meeting being to form an Intercollegiate Lawn-Tennis 
Association. A committee was elected to draft a consti- 
tution, which, having been prepared during a recess, was 
read before the association, enlarged now by delegates 
from Yale. A constitution was adopted, officers elected, 
and an invitation extended to Harvard and Williams to 
join the association. A second meeting was held in the 
same place, on June 7th, 1883, attended by delegates 
from Harvard as well as from the four other colleges, at 
which it was resolved " that the championship tourna- 
ment be held on the 9th of October, 1883, at Hartford, 
Conn." An exhibition tournament was, however, held 
on June 7, 8, and 9, in which the five colleges mentioned 
above participated. The winners were, in singles, Mr. 
J. Clark, '83, Harvard ; second place, Mr. G. L. Sargent, 
L. S., Yale; in doubles, Messrs. Clark and Taylor, Harvard; 
second place, Messrs. Gardiner and Hill, Brown. The 
first annual championship tournament was held, as agreed, 
in Hartford on October 9, 10 and 11, 1883. Wesleyan 
was added to the five original members. The winners 
were : In singles, Mr. H. A. Taylor, '86, Harvard ; sec- 
ond place, Mr. L. Thorne, '85 S., Yale; and in doubles, 
Messrs. Taylor and Presbrey, Harvard ; second place, 
Messrs. Thorne and Knapp, Yale. The expenses for the 
year were eight dollars. 



INTERCOLLEGIATE LAWN-TENNIS ASSOCIATION. 1 23 



1884 

The annual meeting of the association was held in 
Hartford, May 6. Lehigh and Williams were admitted. 
A motion that there should be no spring tournament was 
carried. It was also voted that each college be allowed 
to send three players to the tournament. At the second 
meeting, held October 8th, Princeton was admitted. It 
was voted that there should be but one business meeting 
a year, held on one of the days of the tournament. It 
was also voted that each college might send two double 
teams, as well as three single players. It was resolved 
that all those beaten by the winner of the tournament 
be allowed to play for second place. The winners were, 
in singles, Mr. W. P. Knapp, '86, Yale ; second place, 
Mr. G. M. Brinley, '88, Trinity ; and in doubles, Messrs. 
Knapp and Thorne, Yale ; second place, Messrs. Brinley 
and Wright, Trinity. A feature of the tournament was 
the defeat of Mr. Richard D. Sears, champion of the 
United States, by Mr. Knapp. The Harvard team was 
unfortunately crippled by Mr. Taylor's spraining his 
wrist by a fall during his match with Mr. Brinley. Thus 
by an unexpected defeat and an accident the Harvard 
team, composed of the champion of the United States 
and the winner of the Newport tournament, were 
deprived of victory. 



1885 

At the annual meeting held in New Haven, October 
15th, it was moved that hereafter clay courts be the official 
courts of the association. The tournament was held on 
the grounds of the New Haven Lawn Club on October 
15th to 19th, and resulted as follows: winners, of singles, 
Mr. W. P. Knapp, Yale; second place, Mr. G. M. Brin- 
ley, Trinity ; of doubles, Messrs. Knapp and Shipman, 
Yale ; second place, Messrs. Chase and Pratt, Amherst. 



124 INTERCOLLEGIATE LAWN-TENNIS ASSOCIATION. 



1886 

At the annual meeting held in New Haven October 
15th, Columbia was admitted. Lehigh sent no repre- 
sentatives to the meeting or the tournament. The tourna- 
ment was again held on the New Haven Lawn Club 
grounds. The winners were, in singles, Mr. G. M. Brin- 
ley, Trinity ; second place, Mr. W. L. Thacher, Yale; 
and in doubles, Messrs. Knapp and Thacher, Yale ; sec- 
ond place, Messrs. Brinley and Paddock, Trinity. 



1887 

The University of Pennsylvania sent players to the 
tournament for the first time this year, and Lehigh was 
again represented, after a lapse of one year. Ten col- 
leges competed. The tournament was held again on 
the New Haven Lawn Club grounds, from the nth to 
the 14th of October. The winners were, in singles, Mr. 
P. S. Sears, Harvard ; second place, Mr. O. S. Campbell, 
Columbia ; and in doubles, Messrs. P. Sears and Shaw, 
Harvard ; second place, Messrs. Hall and Campbell, 
Columbia. The prizes cost §285. 

Thus it will be seen that in the five annual champion- 
ship tournaments Yale has won five first places and three 
seconds ; Harvard, four first places ; Trinity, one first 
place and four seconds ; Columbia, two seconds, and Am- 
herst one second. 

From the eleven colleges which have taken part in 
these tournaments, seventy-seven men have played. Of 
these four men have played four years, eight men three 
years, seventeen men two years, and forty-eight men one 
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[Numerals in brackets indicate number of years played by those who have 
played more than one year.] 



Amherst — Comstock, '83 ; Weedin, '84 ; Wheeler, '84 ; Appleton, '84 ; 
Chase, '87 (4) ; F. W. Phelps, '85 ; F. J. Pratt, '86 ; C. B.Wilbur, '88 ; W. E. 
Davidson (2) ; S. C. Brooks. 

Brown — Barker, '83 ; Gardiner, '84 (2) ; Hill, '85 (2) ; Richmond, J. deF. 
Danielson, '87 (2) ; W. W. Brownell, '88, F. H. Hovey, '90 (2) ; G. E. Warren, 
'89 (2) ; W. R. Weedin, Weedin, '91. 

Columbia— V. G. Hall, '89 (2) ; Bacon, '87 ; Sands, '88 ; Smith, Strebeigh, 
O. S. Campbell, '91 ; R. C. Stevens, '90 ; Post. 

Harvard—]. Clark, '83 ; H. A. Taylor, '85 (3) ; Presbrey, '85 ; R. D. Sears, 
M. S.; P. S. Sears, '89 (3) ; H. M. Sears, '89 (2) ; Kuhn, '88 ; W. B. Lord, '88 ; 
D. K. Snow, '88 (3) ; T. S. Tailor, '89 ; Q. A. Shaw, '91. 

Lehigh— -C. Davis, '88 (2) ; M. A. Howe, '86 (2) ; R. H. E. Porter ; W. K. 
Gillett. 

Princeton—]. Conover, '84 ; Moffatt, '85 ; A. H. Larkin, '87 (2) ; R. T. H. 
Halsey, Hodge, '87. 

Trinity— Kurtz, '83 ; Purdy, '84 (2) ; G. H. Hills, '84 ; A. C. Hamlin, '87 (3) ; 
G. M. Brinley, '88 (4) ; A. E. Wright, '89 (3) ; L. H. Paddock, '88 (3.) 

University of Pennsylvania — W. B. Henry, '89 ; A. Thomson. 

Wesleyan—]. R. Hoyt, '84 ; S. V. Coffin, '89 (3) ; Kabayama, '89 (2). 

Williams — A. Duryea, '88 (4) ; J. Garfield, '85 ; Banks, '85 ; Broughton, 
'88 ; M. W. Comstock. 

Yale—G. L. Sargent, L. S.; W. C. Camp, M. S.; H. W. Slocum, '83 ; L. 
Thorne, '85 S. (2) ; W. P. Knapp, '86 (4) ; A. L. Shipman, '86 (2) ; W. L. 
Thacher,'87 (3) ; C. H. Ludington, '87 (2) ; G.A. Hurd, '90 (2) ; T. W. Porter, 
'87 ; R. A. Gardiner, '87 ; R. S. Thomas, '87. 



TABLE OF CHAMPIONSHIPS, 1876-1888. 



1876 
1877 
1878 

1879 
1880 
1881 
1882 
1883 
1884 
1885 

1886 

1887 



Rowing. 

Yale. 

Harvard. 

Harvard. 

Harvard. 

Yale. 

Yale. 

Harvard. 

Harvard. 

Yale. 

Harvard. 

Yale. 

Yale. 



Foot Ball. 
[Yale.] 

Princeton. 



Yale. 
Yale. 
Yale. 

Princeton. 



Yale. 



Base Ball. 



[Yale.] 

Yale. 

Yale. 

Yale. 

Yale. 

Harvard. 

Yale. 

Yale. 



Track Athletics. 
Princeton. 
Columbia. 
Columbia. 
Columbia. 
Harvard. 
Harvard. 
Harvard. 
Harvard. 
Harvard. 
Harvard. 

Harvard. 

Yale. 



Tennis. 



Harvard. 

Yale. 

Yale. 
( Yale. 
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Harvard. 



Summary. — Yale 22, Harvard 16, Princeton 3, Columbia 3, Trinity 1. In 
the three great branches of Athletics alone — Rowing, Foot Ball and Base 
Ball — it will be noticed that Yale has even a greater lead than in all 
the branches reckoned together, viz: Yale 18, Harvard 7, Princeton 2. 



FINIS. 



A HISTORY OF YALE ATHLETICS 

GIVING EVERY CONTEST WITH 

HARVARD, PRINCETON, PENNSYLVANIA, COLUMBIA, 
WESLEYAN, ETC., 

— IN — 

ROWING, FOOT BALL, BASE BALL, TRACK 
ATHLETICS, AND TENNIS, 

— BY — 

Richard M. Hurd, Yale '88. 



In one volume, 8vo., Price, $i.jo. 



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THE YALE BOOK, 

And it will not be reproduced, as the heliotype plates 
have been destroyed by fire. When the copies on hand 
are disposed of the work will command high prices. 
Edited by William L. Kingsley, editor of The New 
Englander. Illustrated with 164 heliotype Views and 
Portraits, and numerous small cuts. 

The Historical Sketch by Mr. Kingsley begins with the early efforts of 
New Haven colonists to found a college, and continues with a chapter on 
the times of each Rector and each President. Then follow over 150 elabo- 
rate papers by nearly as many distinguished authors ; as for instance : The 
Corporation, by Dr. Bacon ; The Library, by A. Van Name ; The Treasury, 
by Mr. H. C. Kingsley, Treasurer ; The Society of Alumni, by Prof. Day ; 
Papers on Theologians, Physicians, Lawyers, Inventors, and Promoters of 
Public Interests among Yale Graduates, with articles on the different Build- 
ings and Biographical Sketches of Professors of the Academical Depart- 
ment. In the second volume, the other Departments of the University are 
treated severally, each with its Buildings, Benefactors, former distinguished 
Professors and its present Faculty. Next come articles on Yale in the Rev- 
olution, The College in the Civil War, The Confederate Graduates of Yale, 
The 44 College Lot" in the New Haven Cemetery, Music, Boating, Ball, The 
Bully Club, etc.; Ex-President Woolsey writes on The Course of Instruction 
in Yale, and President Porter closes with Additional Notices respecting 
instruction and discipline. There is a complete Index. 

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